Details

Subject(s)

• Kings and rulers—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Theft—Juvenile poetry [Browse]

Publisher

• Dean & Son [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Nursery rhymes [Browse]
• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Toy books—19th century [Browse]
• Printed wrappers (Binding)—19th century [Browse]
• Publishers advertisements—19th century [Browse]

Series

Dean's Sixpenny Colored Toy Books

Notes

• First and last leaves laid down to wrappers, with first and last leaves unnumbered; printed on one side only.
• Title and imprint from cover.
• "Price 6d. coloured; or, on cloth and intearable, 1s."--at head of title.
• "29*" at head of title, in upper right corner.
• Undated; Dean & Son active at 11 Ludgate Hill address from 1857-1865 (cf. Brown, London Publishers & Printers).
• Cotsen copy: Printer's inventory information on lower wrapper, "2000--12, 94" (with "9" possibly an inverted "6"?).
• Illustrations: Half-page, hand-colored illustrations on each page, with two smaller illustrations above and below, most remaining uncolored, in a design incorporating printed verse text around illustrations.

Binding note

• Publisher's pale yellow wrappers, pictorial upper colored in red, lower with publisher's advertisements headed: "Dean's Sixpenny Colored Toy Books."
• Cotsen copy: Expert spine replacement, using spine of another copy, matching up text and illustrations, this piece with printed "26" in ipper corner.

Other title(s)

Damson tarts

OCLC

63095806

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