• Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233, copy 1)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233, copy 1)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
Uncle Nimrod's third visit
pcb2322
pcb2322
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233, copy 1)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant B: [1852]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.X.233, copy 1)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
  • Uncle Nimrod's third visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]. Variant C: [1852]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (SI UNC)
TITLE
Uncle Nimrod's third visit.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Uncle Nimrod's third 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] : 11
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; 8, at foot: "PRINTED BY STEWART AND MURRAY, OLD BAILEY."
Covers
Upper wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2275); specific for this title: "UNCLE NIMROD'S THIRD VISIT."
Lower wrapper: see variants
Illustrations
8 illustrations, one per page, unsigned, printed in black by Stewart and Murray and hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Statement of responsibility (printer)
Documents (engraver)
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of December 1852 as no. 11 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 white paper
Variant B
[1852]: same as variant A, on orange paper
Variant C
[1852]: same as variant A, on greenish blue paper
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1855 Dilke, 7
2006 Masaki, I.12, 19-21, 326, 360-61, II.C3 (NAL-ReC: yet untraced Renier copy)
2017 O'Sullivan-Immel, 85
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.53(7) (variant A: [1852]; accession stamp dated 31OC54; bound with other titles of the series, seventh title)
NAL: 60.X.233 (variant B: [1852]; two copies, identical; copy 1: on upper wrapper, pasted on foot, purple bookseller's ticket: "MURRAY AND STANESBY. | BOOKSELLERS, STATIONERS & BOOKBINDERS, | 179, SLOANE STREET."; on upper wrapper, inscription with accession date: "26.11.67"; copy 2: on upper wrapper, pasted on foot, white bookseller's ticket: "SOLD BY. | P. HANCE, | Bookseller & Bookbinder. | 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, sixth and seventh title, collective title: "London | Exhibn. | 1851 | Routledge")
NAL-ReC: (not analysed and yet untraced; reproduced in 2006 Masaki II.C3)
TPL-OsC: BI UNC (variant C: [1852]; inscribed and dated: "1852"; blind-stamped on lower wrapper; analysed through digital reproduction; Digital copy)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 8 (p. 17: "Dalziel a/c for engraving cuts &")
OTHER VERSIONS
Reissued as
Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]
Reissued as
Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]
OCLCN
1011968673
PERMALINK
https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2322
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Uncle Nimrod's third visit". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2322