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Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Reproduced from 1983 McLean, 77
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)

Old Mother Bunch

pcb2310

Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Reproduced from 1983 McLean, 77
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Old Mother Bunch. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1853]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)

TITLE

Old Mother Bunch.

VARIANT TITLE

Title from page 1
Old Mother Bunch's day at the Great Exhibition.

PUBLISHED

London : George Routledge & Co., [1852].

PRINTED

[London] : Stewart and Murray.

SERIES

Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [first series] : 5

PRICE

6d.

AUTHOR

Dalziel Brothers (engraver)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
Stewart and Murray (printer)

DESCRIPTION

Size
24,6x17,4 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A⁸
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
1-8 text and wood-engraved vignettes
Covers
Upper wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2275); specific for this title: "OLD MOTHER BUNCH."
Lower wrapper: see variants
Illustrations
8 illustrations, one per page, unsigned, printed in black by Stewart and Murray and hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Documents (engraver)
Comparison with other titles of the series (printer)
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of December 1852 as no. 5 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers
Early publishers' advertisements (e.g. at the end of The boys' own story-book (London: Routledge, 1852), n.p.) describe the series as: "Uniform in size with Dean & Darton's large coloured sixpenny books for children. With greatly improved illustrations, new types, and well coloured pictures, an entirely new series of 13 different books."

NOTES

Printed on one side of the sheet only; first and last page pasted to upper and lower wrappers
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements

PRINTING TECHNIQUES

Relief
Hand-colouring

VARIANTS

Variant A
[1852]: possibly on white paper; not analysed
Variant B
[1853]: on emerald paper; 1853 lower wrapper as pcb2275, variant C
Variant C
[1853]: on yellow paper; 1853 lower wrapper as pcb2275, variant C

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1855 Dilke, 7
1983 McLean, 77 (reproduction of a copy, apparently variant A, apparently not in UTMC-McL collections and without indication of sources)
2006 Masaki, I.12, 19-21, 356, II.B2 (NAL: 60.X.233, as Mother Bunch's evening party), D10-11 (BL)
2017 O'Sullivan-Immel, 85

COPIES

BL: 12806.g.53(4) (variant C: [1853]; accession stamp dated 31OC54; bound with other titles of the series, fourth title)
NAL: 60.X.233 (variant B: [1853]; on upper wrapper, pasted on foot, green bookseller's ticket: "LIBRARY. | P. HANCE, | Bookseller & Stationer, | Engraver & Printer, | 14, Upper Gloucester Place, | KING'S ROAD, CHELSEA."; on upper wrapper, inscription with accession date: "26.11.67"; bound with other titles of this and other series, eleventh title, collective title: "London | Exhibn. | 1851 | Routledge")

DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS

Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 8 (p. 17: "Dalziel a/c for engraving cuts &")

OTHER VERSIONS

Reissued as
Mother Bunch's evening party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]
Reissued as
Mother Bunch's evening party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]

OCLCN

1011925701

PERMALINK

https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2310

CITATION

Francesca Tancini, "Old Mother Bunch". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2310