A. Apple Pie
pcb1607
TITLE
A. Apple Pie.
PUBLISHED
London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1866].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
SERIES
PRICE
3d.
AUTHOR
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
19,5x14 cm
Format and pagination
16° : 12 pp. : [4] pages of text, [6] pages of plates : col. ill.
Signatures
A6
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A3.4)
Covers
Same upper wrapper as pcb1589, on purple paper; specific for this title, at centre, inserted in a decorated roundel, vignette with two children in front of a pie surmounted by a capital A; inserted in a decorated panel, red, title, black: "A. Apple Pie"
Lower wrapper printed in black on purple paper; on lower wrapper, inside the frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne's Sixpenny 32mo Books. | Elegantly printed with new type, in modern style, cloth, gilt edges, | with Colour Frontispiece (Kronheim's process). | Little Nettie; or, Home Sunshine. | Annie and Mary; or, Pride and Humility. | The Little Black Hen. | Maggie's Christmas; or, The Rose in the Desert. | Martha's Visit and Its Results. | Gertrude and Lily; or, Good Resolutions. | Althea; or, Sunshine and Shade. | The Prince in Disguise; or, The Troubles of Austin May. | The Basket of Flowers; or, Piety and Truth Triumphant. | Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit. | Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and Her Charge. | The Dairyman's Daughter. By the late Legh Richmond. | Jane Hudson; or, The Secret of Getting On in the World. | Ruth Elmer: a Tale for School Girls. | Philip and Arthur; or, The Chatterton Children. | ***A Fourpenny Edition is also published of the above, in Fancy Paper Covers, with Plain | Illustrations. | Price Five Shillings, Cloth extra, | In imperial 16mo, 320 pages. | The Book of Nursery Tales. | A Keepsake for the Young. | A thoroughly Revised Edition, containing – | [two columns, first] Cinderella; or, The Glass Slipper. | Jack the Giant Killer. | Sleeping Beauty (The). | Yellow Dwarf (The). | Red-Cap. | Giant with the Golden Hairs. | Blue-Beard. | Three Soldiers (The). | Snowdrop. | Invisible Prince (The). | [second] Beauty and the Beat. | Prince Cherie. | Valentine and Orson. | Enchanted Hind (The). | Blanche and Rosalind. | White Cat (The). | Goody Two-Shoes. | Golden Goose (The). | Children in the Wood (The). | Whittington and His Cat. | [at centre] Splendidly Illustrated by Franklin, Selous, John Gilbert, &c., and printed | in first-class style by Clay. | London: Fred.k Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden."; outside the frame, printer's caption: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street."
Illustrations
6 illustrations, one per page, printed in red, yellow, blue and the black key block by Evans
Source for date
Advertisement
List of titles on lower wrapper and endpapers
19,5x14 cm
Format and pagination
16° : 12 pp. : [4] pages of text, [6] pages of plates : col. ill.
Signatures
A6
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A3.4)
Covers
Same upper wrapper as pcb1589, on purple paper; specific for this title, at centre, inserted in a decorated roundel, vignette with two children in front of a pie surmounted by a capital A; inserted in a decorated panel, red, title, black: "A. Apple Pie"
Lower wrapper printed in black on purple paper; on lower wrapper, inside the frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne's Sixpenny 32mo Books. | Elegantly printed with new type, in modern style, cloth, gilt edges, | with Colour Frontispiece (Kronheim's process). | Little Nettie; or, Home Sunshine. | Annie and Mary; or, Pride and Humility. | The Little Black Hen. | Maggie's Christmas; or, The Rose in the Desert. | Martha's Visit and Its Results. | Gertrude and Lily; or, Good Resolutions. | Althea; or, Sunshine and Shade. | The Prince in Disguise; or, The Troubles of Austin May. | The Basket of Flowers; or, Piety and Truth Triumphant. | Robert Dawson; or, The Brave Spirit. | Babes in the Basket; or, Daph and Her Charge. | The Dairyman's Daughter. By the late Legh Richmond. | Jane Hudson; or, The Secret of Getting On in the World. | Ruth Elmer: a Tale for School Girls. | Philip and Arthur; or, The Chatterton Children. | ***A Fourpenny Edition is also published of the above, in Fancy Paper Covers, with Plain | Illustrations. | Price Five Shillings, Cloth extra, | In imperial 16mo, 320 pages. | The Book of Nursery Tales. | A Keepsake for the Young. | A thoroughly Revised Edition, containing – | [two columns, first] Cinderella; or, The Glass Slipper. | Jack the Giant Killer. | Sleeping Beauty (The). | Yellow Dwarf (The). | Red-Cap. | Giant with the Golden Hairs. | Blue-Beard. | Three Soldiers (The). | Snowdrop. | Invisible Prince (The). | [second] Beauty and the Beat. | Prince Cherie. | Valentine and Orson. | Enchanted Hind (The). | Blanche and Rosalind. | White Cat (The). | Goody Two-Shoes. | Golden Goose (The). | Children in the Wood (The). | Whittington and His Cat. | [at centre] Splendidly Illustrated by Franklin, Selous, John Gilbert, &c., and printed | in first-class style by Clay. | London: Fred.k Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden."; outside the frame, printer's caption: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street."
Illustrations
6 illustrations, one per page, printed in red, yellow, blue and the black key block by Evans
Source for date
Advertisement
List of titles on lower wrapper and endpapers
NOTES
First and last leaf pasted to upper and lower wrappers and included in pagination
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
ADVERTISEMENTS
COPIES
BL: 12808.de.1. (accession stamp dated 16AP68; single title not described (series description and shelfmark))
CUL: 1868.7.266 (not analysed)
CUL: 1868.7.266 (not analysed)
OTHER VERSIONS
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours with Letter-Press Descriptions. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Co., [1867].
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Nursery Keepsake : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures ... with Letter-Press Descriptions / printed in colours by Kronheim and Dalziel. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [ante 1878]
Reissued as
A. Apple Pie. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1880-1881]
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours with Letter-Press Descriptions. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Co., [1867].
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Nursery Keepsake : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures ... with Letter-Press Descriptions / printed in colours by Kronheim and Dalziel. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [ante 1878]
Reissued as
A. Apple Pie. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1880-1881]
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "A. Apple Pie". In PiCoBoo, accessed October 10, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1607