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The milkmaid : an old song exhibited & explained in many designs

Title: The milkmaid : an old song exhibited & explained in many designs / by R. Caldecott.
Publication: [London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1882]

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH+ 1882 Caldecott 16-626	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Eng. 1882 (Caldecott's)	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308

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Description

22, [2] p. : ill. (some col.); 21 x 24 cm.

Series Statement

R. Caldecott's picture books
Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.

Alternative Title

Milk-maid
Where are you going, my pretty maid?

Subjects

Children's poetry, English
Juvenile literature > Great Britain > London > 1882
Wood engravings > Color > Great Britain > 19th century

Genre/Form

Wood engravings – Color – Great Britain – 19th century.
Juvenile literature – Great Britain – London – 1882.

Note

Imprint from cover.
Ninth in Caldecott's shilling series of 16 picture books published 1878-1885. For date of publication, cf. English children's books, 1600 to 1900 / by Percy Muir. 1954. p. 199-200. Cf. also Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 281-282. cf. also Henry Blackburn, Randolph Caldecott (1886), p. 213.
"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Racquet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
The ill. are wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 7 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
Issued in illustrated orange paper covers.
Publisher's advertisement on back cover for "R. Caldecott's picture books" (1 shilling each), 10 titles; "R. Caldecott's picture books" (5 shillings), vols. I and II; and "R. Caldecott's Collection of pictures and songs."
Vignette on the title page has a caption: A lady said to her son--a poor young squire: "You must seek a wife with a fortune!"

Indexed In (note)

Finlay, N. Randolph Caldecott
Osborne Coll.

Binding (note)

Copy in *KH bound in publisher's color printed pictorial wrappers.

Call Number

Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25

LCCN

15002196

OCLC

NYPG99-B246

Title

The milkmaid : an old song exhibited & explained in many designs / by R. Caldecott.

Imprint

[London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1882]

Series

R. Caldecott's picture books

Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.

Indexed In:

Finlay, N. Randolph Caldecott, p. 19

Osborne Coll. I, p. 100

Local Note

Spencer copy in box: Caldecott's picture books. 1882-85.

Arents copy in case with spine title: Picture books / Caldecott.

Binding

Copy in *KH bound in publisher's color printed pictorial wrappers. NN

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Added Author

Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, illustrator.

George Routledge and Sons, publisher

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver.

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25

Spencer Coll. Eng. 1882 (Caldecott's)

*KH+ 1882 Caldecott 16-626

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