The babes in the wood
pcb2432
TITLE
The babes in the wood.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Child-ren in the wood.
Title from page 1
Children in the wood.
Child-ren in the wood.
Title from page 1
Children in the wood.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1854].
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
DESCRIPTION
Size
25x17,5 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, printed in black (see pcb2395), on pinkish paper, with fancy title: "THE BABES IN THE WOOD."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395), on pinkish paper
Illustrations
8 illustrations, 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
Statement on the title page of the collective volume Aunt Mavor's nursery tales for good little people, gathering all the series' titles: "With one hundred coloured illustrations by Alfred Crowquill" (see 2006 Masaki, I.375ff.)
Source for date
Documents
Advertisements
25x17,5 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, printed in black (see pcb2395), on pinkish paper, with fancy title: "THE BABES IN THE WOOD."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395), on pinkish paper
Illustrations
8 illustrations, 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
Statement on the title page of the collective volume Aunt Mavor's nursery tales for good little people, gathering all the series' titles: "With one hundred coloured illustrations by Alfred Crowquill" (see 2006 Masaki, I.375ff.)
Source for date
Documents
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
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
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.383-84
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.55(7) (accession stamp dated 6SE56; bound with other titles of the series, seventh title)
MKB: KBS 755 (not analysed)
MKB: KBS 755 (not analysed)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
OTHER VERSIONS
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "The babes in the wood". In PiCoBoo, accessed October 10, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2432