Details

Subject(s)

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Children's poetry, English [Browse]

Illustrator

• Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]

Printer

• Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

• George Routledge and Sons [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers . [Browse]

Series

• Routledge's new sixpenny toy books ; 107 [More in this series]
• Walter Crane's toy books, new series

Notes

• Date from Spencer and Masaki, who notes a single toy book ed. (Massé and Osborne provide an apparently erroneous date of 1870).
• 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.
• A fairy tale in verse; the poem begins: "Once upon a time an Emperor, a man of might and fame, / Married a wife, and fair was she, and Bellisant her name."

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. 556
• Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202
• Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12
• Osborne Coll., p. 596

LCCN

2001553534

OCLC

50123515

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