Details

Subject(s)

• Children's poetry, English [Browse]
• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Husbands—Conduct of life—Fiction [Browse]

Illustrator

• Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]

Printer

• Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 [Browse]

Publisher

• George Routledge and Sons [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Printed wrappers . [Browse]

Series

• Routledge's new sixpenny toy books ; 113 [More in this series]
• Walter Crane's toy books. New series

Notes

• Date from Spencer and Masaki, who notes a second printing in 1879 (Massé provides a date of 1873-4, while Osborne lists 1873).
• Title, publisher, and series from cover; printer appears on back wrapper (lacking on Cotsen ed.).
• "Price sixpence, or Mounted on linen, one shilling"--At head of cover title.
• 4 chromoxylograph bifolia, printed on one side only, with text inset into cartouches 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, beginning, "Once on a time there lived a man hated by all he knew, / Both that his ways were very bad, and his beard was blue."

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. 565
• Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202
• Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12
• Osborne Coll. I, p. 26

Other title(s)

Blue beard

OCLC

26879936

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