Hop o' my Thumb.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [between 1860 and 1865] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street)
Description
[8] leaves. : col. ill. (wood engravings) ; 24 cm.

Details

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Publisher
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Related work(s)
Series
Notes
  • "Everlasting" series at head of title; "Toy Books" series from lower wrapper and Masaki.
  • "Price one shilling each"--At head of title.
  • Printer from lower wrapper.
  • Masaki notes 8 printings from 1860-1872; Routledge, Warne, & Routledge active, under that imprint, from 1858-1865 (cf. Brown, London pubs., p. 167).
  • 4 bifolia, printed on one side only, leaves mounted on linen with first and last laid down to wrappers.
  • Text begins: "A very poor couple once lived in a village near a wood, where they used to work..."
  • Illustrations: 6 half- or three-quarter page wood engravings and one double-leaf center-fold (occupying three-quarters of both facing pages), hand-colored in red, green, purple, pink, yellow, and buff.
  • Routledge's second version of this toy book, the first issued in 1854 with Cruikshank ills. engraved by Daziel.
Binding note
  • Pub. orange wrappers, pictorial upper with vignette of Hop o' my Thumb before the King (repeating leaf [8]) under red-filled title, both within a red ruled border; lower wrapper with publisher's advertisement for New Juvenile Books, listing titles in several series: Aunt Mavor's, Routledge's Two-Shilling Books for Young Readers, and Nursery Rhymes for Children.
  • Cotsen copy: Numbered list of Aunt Mavior's Toy Books runs from 2-43 (cf. Osborne's copy, noting nos. 12, 14-43).
References
  • Osborne coll., p. 602
  • Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 388 (24b)
OCLC
63088334
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