• Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B: [1854]. Courtesy Costen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (28718)
  • Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B: [1854]. Courtesy Costen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (28718)
  • Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant A: [1854]. Courtesy of Roger Middleton
Hop o' my thumb

pcb2467
pcb2467
  • Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B: [1854]. Courtesy Costen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (28718)
  • Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B: [1854]. Courtesy Costen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (28718)
  • Hop o' my thumb. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant A: [1854]. Courtesy of Roger Middleton
TITLE
Hop o' my thumb.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
Hop-o'-my-thumb.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1854].
PRICE
6d.
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
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
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1854]: upper wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395), on pinkish paper; specific for this title: "[fancy] HOP O' MY THUMB."; lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395)
Variant B
[1854]: same as variant A, on buff paper
Variant C
[1854]: same as variant A, on white paper; lower wrapper not analysed
Variant D
[1855]: upper wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2397, variant B), on light blue paper, with plain title: "[plain] HOP O' MY THUMB."; lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2415)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ISFD, 477900
2006 Masaki, I.388-89
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.55(10) (variant A: [1854]; accession stamp dated 17AP55; bound with other titles of the series, tenth title)
IULL: GR486 .H77 1852 (bound with other titles, sixteenth title; from the library of Elisabeth Ball; not analysed)
NLS: Mas.437(15) (variant D: [1855]; bound with other titles, fifteenth title)
PUL-CCL: 28718 (variant B: [1854]; inscribed on upper wrapper: "Mrs. Major, Cromwell House")
TRADE COPIES
Roger Middleton: 27192 (variant C: [1854]; lower wrapper not analysed; on sale in March 2020)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
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")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Hop o' my thumb". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2467