Details

Subject(s)

• Aladdin (Tale)—Juvenile fiction [Browse]

Illustrator

• Crowquill, Alfred [Browse]

Publisher

• G. Routledge & Co. [Browse]

Engraver

• Dalziel Brothers [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Printed wrappers [Browse]
• Publishers' advertisements [Browse]

Series

• Aunt Mavor's toy books [More in this series]
• Aunt Mavor's picture books for little children, 2nd series ; 6

Notes

• Date and printer from Masaki.
• Title, publisher, and series from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p.; publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper for "the series of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little children" lists this title as no. 6.
• 4 bifolia, printed on one side only, with first and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
• Longer words in the text are divided into syllables, as in other early "Aunt Mavor's Picture Book" titles.
• Illustrations: hand-colored engraving after Crowquill (cf. Masaki) on each page in red, blue, pink, yellow, and green with printed text below; Aladdin and others are depicted as Chinese.
• Cotsen copy: "Mrs. Major, Cromwell House"--Inscribed on upper wrapper.

Binding note

Pub. white printed wrappers, with round series illustration of a story-telling Aunt Mavor centered within a decorated border on upper wrapper; the ill. on this title has a framed backdrop of fairy tale titles.

References

Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., p. I, 382

Other title(s)

• Al-ad-din, or, The wonderful lamp
• Wonderful lamp

OCLC

26279695

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