Ride a-cock horse to Banbury + [i.e. cross], & A farmer went trotting upon his grey mare

Author
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
[London] : Frederick Warne & Co., [189-?] (London : Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Racquet Court, Fleet Street)
Description
[1], 3-22, [1] p. : ill. (part col.) ; 21 x 24 cm.

Copies in the Library

Location Call Number Status
Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 18387 Pams / Eng 19 / Box 072 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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    Subject(s)
    Printer
    Publisher
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Series
    R. Caldecott's picture books [More in this series]
    Notes
    • Title, publisher, and series note from upper wrapper.
    • Date from NUC.
    • "Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Racquet Court, Fleet Street, London, E. C"--At foot of lower cover.
    • One of Caldecott's "landscape format" toy books, wider than tall (cf. Masaki).
    • Separate half t.p. for A Farmer Went Trotting on p. [13].
    • Illustrations: Chromoxlyograph illustrations pasted down to upper and lower endpapers, 4 full-page chromoxlyographs, and 16 pages of sepia line-drawings, some with text below.
    • Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate, dated 8 '76. laid in.
    Binding note
    Pale yellow printed wrappers with pictorial chromoxlyograph on upper and publisher's advertisement in black on lower for various patent medicines and cures.
    References
    • NUC pre-1956, 0022641
    • Masaki, T. Victorian picture books, p. 708 (Routledge ed.)
    Other title(s)
    • Ride a-cock horse to Banbury Cross
    • Farmer went trotting upon his grey mare.
    OCLC
    1543866
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