Cinderella.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1873]
Description
8 leaves : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Copies in the Library

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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 2394 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Engraver
    Printer
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Getty AAT genre
    Series
    Notes
    • Date from Spencer, Masaki, and Massé; Masaki notes a second issue in 1880.
    • Title, publisher, and series from cover; printer appears on back wrapper (lacking on Cotsen ed).
    • 4 chromoxylograph bifolia, printed on one side only, with letterpress text inset into boxes on upper or lower corners of pages; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside wrappers.
    • Illustrations: 8 chromoxylographs, signed with Crane's glyph.
    • In verse; the poem begins: "There was an honest gentle man who had a daughter dear; / His wife was dead, he took instead a new one in a year"; the stepsisters are named Caroline and Bella.
    Binding note
    • Pub. yellow wrappers with chromoxylograph design by Crane on upper wrapper in green, red, and black, and cover title set into a centered box; Crane's series design is repeated on 12 (of 13) other toy books in this vol. with different individual titles.
    • Cotsen copy: 13 other Crane toy book titles (12 in the order issued, from "My Mother" to "Sleeping Beauty"), bound together in later bright blue cloth boards with the lower wrapper of each toy book removed during rebinding.
    References
    • Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., p. 554
    • Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202
    • Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12
    • Osborne Coll., 26
    Other title(s)
    Cinderella. English
    OCLC
    16070723
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