Details

Subject(s)

• Foxes—Juvenile fiction [Browse]
• One-syllable word books [Browse]

Related name

• National Art Library (Great Britain). Little Bequest [Browse]
• Day, Samuel Phillips [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]
• Romances [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Publishers' advertisements—19th century [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• children's books [Browse]
• romances (medieval narratives) [Browse]

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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