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The rare romance of Reynard the Fox, the crafty courtier : together with the shifts of his son Reynardine, in words of one syllable / by Samuel Phillips Day ; with coloured illustrations.
Uniform title
Reynard the Fox.
English
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [approximately 1860]
Description
221 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Availability
Available Online
Commentary
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Call Number
Status
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Notes
ReCAP - Remote Storage
PR4525.D39 R374 1872
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Subject(s)
Foxes
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Juvenile fiction
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One-syllable word books
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Related name
National Art Library (Great Britain). Little Bequest
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Day, Samuel Phillips
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Romances
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Rare books genre
Publishers' advertisements
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19th century
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Getty AAT genre
children's books
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romances (medieval narratives)
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Notes
Includes publisher's advertisements on [4] p at end, which include Cassell's Paris office at foot (not listed on t.p. or spine imprint), which opened in 1871 (cf. House of Cassell, p. 85); coded with pub. inventory no. 3A373.
Firestone copy: Lacks advertisements, presumably removed for later rebinding.
Printer from colophon on p. 221.
P. [222] blank.
Preface by Day on p. [v]-vii.
Text of both works in words of one syllable, with longer names hyphenated into syllables.
Color-printed (Baxter process?) frontis. depicting "The Fox Made Knight" and 5 similarly-colored leaves throughout the text, with those facing pp. 25 & 154 signed by Griset, who is generally credited.
Firestone copy: T.p. with embossed library stamp of the College of New Jersey, as Princeton was known until 1896.
Binding note
Pub. lilac cloth bds., upper cover and spine gilt-stamped with pictorial title and black-stamped with floral-patterned design, and lower cover black-stamped with frame; beveled edges; all edges gilt; cream endpapers.
Firestone copy: Later maroon library binding.
Contents
The rare romance of Reynard the Fox
The shifts of Reynardine, son of Reynard the Fox.
Place name(s)
England - London.
Other title(s)
Reynard the Fox
OCLC
1008194518
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