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.

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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [approximately 1860]
Description
221 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm

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ReCAP - Remote StoragePR4525.D39 R374 1872 Browse related items Request
    Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library 152484 Eng 19 Browse related items Reading Room Request

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      Library of Congress genre(s)
      Rare books genre
      Getty AAT genre
      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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