• The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
The dogs' dinner party

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  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
  • The dogs' dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Courtesy of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford (Opie M 203)
TITLE
The dogs' dinner party.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
The dog's din-ner par-ty.
Title from page 1
The dog's dinner party.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1854].
SERIES
Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [second series] : 9
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
Crowquill, Alfred (Alfred Henry Forrester) (illustrator)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
DESCRIPTION
Size
25x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note

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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 white paper, with fancy title: "THE DOGS' DINNER PARTY."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395), on white 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
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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
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Hand-coloured
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.385-86
COPIES
BoL-OpC: Opie M 203
IULL: GR486 .H77 1852 (bound with other titles, fifth title; from the library of Elisabeth Ball; not analysed)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Drawings
Sotheby: English Literature, History, Children’s Books and Illustrations, 09/07/2019, lot no. 246 (32 ink on paper drawings on 16 sheets for Tom Thumb, The dog's dinner party, Puss in Boots and Butterfly's ball, and Grasshopper's feast, unsigned and undated, sold for £6,250 (estimate 3-5,000))
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 8 (p. 127: "Aunt Mavor 2nd series 12 books [sic] 1854 Nov. 3, 1st edition 2000. 1855 March 13, 2nd edition 2000")
OTHER VERSIONS
Included in
Aunt Mavor's nursery tales for boys. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Included in
Aunt Mavor's book of nursery tales. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Reissued as
The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]
PERMALINK
https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2445
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "The dogs' dinner party". In PiCoBoo, accessed April 21, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2445

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