• Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
Uncle Nimrod's second visit
pcb2314
pcb2314
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
  • Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant A: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233)
TITLE
Uncle Nimrod's second visit.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Uncle Nimrod's second visit to the Exhibition.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1852].
PRINTED
[London] : Stewart and Murray.
SERIES
Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [first series] : 7
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: "UNCLE NIMROD'S SECOND VISIT."
Lower wrapper: see variants
Illustrations
23 illustrations, 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. 6 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]: lower wrapper as pcb2275, variant A, on buff paper
Variant B
[1852]: lower wrapper as pcb2275, variant A, on light blue paper
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1855 Dilke, 7
2006 Masaki, I.12, 19-21, 326, 357-58, II.A2 (NAL-ReC: yet untraced Renier copy)
2017 O'Sullivan-Immel, 85
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.53(5) (variant A: [1852]; accession stamp dated 31OC54; bound with other titles of the series, fifth title)
NAL: 60.X.233 (variant A: [1852]; on upper wrapper, pasted on foot, yellow bookseller's ticket: "Sold by MURRAY & STANESBY. | BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS & BOOKBINDERS. | 179, SLOANE STREET."; bound with other titles of this and other series, fifth title, collective title: "London | Exhibn. | 1851 | Routledge")
NAL-ReC: (variant B: [1852]; not analysed and yet untraced; reproduced in 2006 Masaki, II.A2)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 8 (p. 17: "Dalziel a/c for engraving cuts &")
OTHER VERSIONS
Reissued as
Charles Grey's travels. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]
Reissued as
Charles Grey's travels. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]
OCLCN
1011762558
PERMALINK
https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2314
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Uncle Nimrod's second visit". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2314