Charles Grey's travels.

Title from advertisement
Charles Gray's travels.

London : George Routledge & Co., [1855].

Aunt Mavor's picture books for little children : 9

6d.

Dalziel Brothers (engraver)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)

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), on buff paper; specific for this title: "[fancy] CHARLES GREY'S TRAVELS."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2352), on buff paper
Illustrations
23 illustrations, already published in pcb2314, but with different text and order, 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 pcb2314 (hence this derivation) to be assigned to Dalziel as engravers
Source for date
Documents
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of November 1855
Advertisements

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."

Hand-coloured

Publishers' Circular (December 17, 1855), 511: see pcb2352

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", 371-72, II.A3, C8 (private collection)

BL: 12806.g.53(16) (accession stamp dated 6SE56; bound with other titles of the series, sixteenth title)

Private collection (Japan) (reproduced in 2006 Masaki, II.A3)

Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 264: "Charles Grey's travels 1855 Nov. 10, 1st edition 2000. 1856 March 20, 2nd edition 2000. 1856 March 20, 3rd edition 2000.")

First published as
Uncle Nimrod's second visit. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1852]
Included in
Aunt Mavor's present for a good little boy. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Included in
Aunt Mavor's present for all good boys and girls. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Reissued as
Charles Grey's travels. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]

https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2382

Francesca Tancini, "Charles Grey's travels". In PiCoBoo, accessed June 14, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2382