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The babes in the wood.
- Title
- The babes in the wood.
- Publication
- [London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1879]
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Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KH+ 1879 Caldecott 16-612 | 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 |
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. 1879 (Caldecott's) | Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308 |
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- Description
- 30, [2] p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- One of R. Caldecott's picture books
- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Wood engravings – Color – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Juvenile literature – Great Britain – London – 1879.
- Note
- Cover title.
- Fourth 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. Osborne Coll. gives date as 1880.
- Text is that of the ballad The children in the wood, beginning "Now ponder well, you parents deare."
- "Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
- The ill. are wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
- Issued in illustrated yellow paper covers, counted in collation, with first and last leaf pasted to inside of covers.
- Publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's shilling toy books," nos. 1-79, with gaps (Walter Crane's titles listed separately), listing "R. Caldecott's picture books" (The house that Jack built, John Gilpin, Elegy on a mad dog, and The babes in the wood), unnumbered, at end.
- Indexed In (note)
- 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
- 15002185
- OCLC
- 8067561
- NYPG99-B241
- Title
- The babes in the wood.
- Imprint
- [London] : George Routledge & Sons, [1879]
- Series
- One of R. Caldecott's picture booksCaldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.
- Indexed In:
- Osborne Coll. I, p. 23
- Local Note
- Spencer copy in box: Caldecott's picture books. 1879-81.Arents copy in case with spine title: Picture books / Caldecott.
- Binding
- Copy in *KH bound in publisher’s color printed pictorial wrappers. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- George Routledge and Sons, publisherEvans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver.Children's Room Collection.
- Research Call Number
- Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25Spencer Coll. Eng. 1879 (Caldecott's)*KH+ 1879 Caldecott 16-612