The sleeping beauty.

Author
Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1876] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer)
Description
8 leaves : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 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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    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Series
    Notes
    • Date from Spencer and Masaki, who notes no additional information on later printings in the Routledge Ledgers (Massé and Osborne also provide a date of 1876).
    • 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 decorated panels below illustrations; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside wrappers.
    • Illustrations: 8 chromoxylographs, signed with Crane's glyph.
    • In verse, beginning, "Long, long ago, in ancient times, there lived a King and Queen, / And for the blessings of a child their longing sore had been."
    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. 568
    • Spencer, I. Walter Crane, p. 202
    • Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12
    • Osborne Coll. I, p. 27
    Other title(s)
    Sleeping Beauty. English
    OCLC
    55518533
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