• Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]. Variant B. Courtesy of Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
  • Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]. Variant B. Courtesy of Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
Aunt Mavor's picture gallery

pcb2376
pcb2376
  • Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]. Variant B. Courtesy of Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
  • Aunt Mavor's picture gallery. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1855]. Variant B. Courtesy of Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints
TITLE
Aunt Mavor's picture gallery.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1855].
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
Dalziel Brothers (engraver)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
24,5x17,5 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 pcb2352); specific for this title: "[plain] THE VICTORIA ALPHABET."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2352)
Illustrations
8 illustrations, 6 of which already published in pcb2291 but with different text, unsigned, printed in black on one side of the sheet only and hand-coloured; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Documents allow pcb2322 (hence this derivation) to be assigned to Dalziel as engravers
Source for date
Documents
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of November 1855
Advertisements
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
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of November 1855 under the collective title "Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers, large coloured sixpenny books for children, with greatly improved illustrations, new types, and well coloured pictures, an entirely new series of 13 different books. Offered 13 for 4s."
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
ADVERTISEMENTS
Publishers' Circular (December 17, 1855), 511: see pcb2352
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1855]: on blue paper
Variant B
[1855]: indestructible, printed on mustard cloth; on upper wrapper, at foot, outside the decorated frame: "CLOTH, ONE SHILLING"
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.364: "Front covers of the first series of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers carry the series' title Aunt Mavor's picture books for little children except for titles adopted directly from the 1852 versions of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers", 365: "This series was recycled from Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers, and was listed in Aunt Mavor's toy books in 1857 as no. 1-13. Therefore the titles of AMLC-1-13 move straight forward to AM-1-13", 370: "Stewart and Murray" [but without source]; II.B3 (NAL-ReC copy, yet untraced, apparently variant A)
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.53(14) (variant A: [1855]; accession stamp dated 6SE56; bound with other titles of the series, fourteenth title)
NAL-ReC: (apparently variant A; reproduced in 2006 Masaki, II.B3; not analysed and yet untraced)
TRADE COPIES
Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints: 15417 (variant B: [1855]; on sale in March 2020; partially analysed through digital reproductions)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 262: "Aunt Mavor's picture gallery 1855 Nov. 10, 1st edition 2000. 1856 March 20, 2nd edition 2000. 1856 March 20, 3rd edition 2000.")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Aunt Mavor's picture gallery". In PiCoBoo, accessed December 2, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2376