Size25x17,5 cm
Format and pagination8° : 8 ll.
SignaturesA
8Signatures note1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
CoversUpper wrapper printed in red and black on blue paper, same as
pcb2479 but without the arched frame; specific for this title, plain lettering: "[red outlined in black] WHITTINGTON [black] AND HIS [red outlined in black] CAT."
1856 lower wrapper, printed in black on blue paper, with publishers' advertisements, framed: "[fancy] Illustrated Juvenile Books, | PUBLISHED BY GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET. | In fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, price 2s., or with gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | TALES FOR MY CHILDREN. | By MADAME GUIZOT. Illustrated by O.R. Campbell. | In fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, price 2s., or with gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | TEN MORAL TALES. | By MADAME GUIZOT. Illustrated by O.R. Campbell. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo, price 2s., cloth gilt, or 2s. 6d., gilt edges. | GERTRUDE AND EULALIE; or, School-day Friendships and Early Life | Associations. | By C.A. HULSE. With Two Illustrations by Dalziels. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo., cloth extra, price 2s., or in gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | ROBERT AND HAROLD; or, The Young Marooners. | Illustrated by Harrison Weir. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo, price 2s., cloth gilt, or 2s. 6d., gilt edges. | THE CABIN BY THE WAYSIDE. | By LADY CAMPBELL [...] With Engravings, after designs by Phiz. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo, price 2s., cloth gilt, or 2s. 6d., gilt edges. | MEMOIRS OF A DOLL. Written by HERSELF. | Adapted by Mrs. BESSET [...] and Illustrated by Gilbert | [...] | In fcap. 8vo., price 2s., cloth gilt, or 2s. 6d., gilt edges. | BLACK PRINCESS (The): A Tale of Jamaica. | By Mrs. BESSET [...] With Illustrations by John Gilbert. [...] | In fcap. 8vo, price 2s., cloth gilt, of 2s. 6d., gilt edges. | THE EMIGRANT'S LOST SON; or, The Home in the WIlderness. | Edited by G.H. WALL, Esq. With Illustrations by Edward Corbould. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo, cloth, 2s., or with gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | THE BISHOP'S DAUGHTER. | By the Rev. ERSKINE NEALE [...] With Illustrations by George | Dalziel. | In fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, 2s., or with gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | AMY CARLTON; or, First Days at School. | A Tale for the Young. Edited by Miss BOWMAN. With Illustrations by Dalziel. | [...] | In fcap. 8vo, cloth extra, 2s., or with gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | LAURA AND ELLEN; or, Time Works Wonders. | By Mrs. ALLEN [...] With Illustrations by Dalziel. [...] | LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET."; at foot, outside the frame: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street."
Illustrations8 illustrations, possibly monogrammed "ED", engraved and printed in black by Evans, hand-coloured
Source for attributionStatement of responsibility (engraver and printer)
Source for dateList of titles on lower wrapper
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of June 1856 as no. 29 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers
Documents state first edition in July / August 1856 and reissues until March 1857
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of September 1857 as no. 29 of Aunt Mavor's toy books
Reissued after 1859 as no. 32 of Aunt Mavor's toy books [new series] (see
pcb2882)
Reissued as no. 12 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see
pcb2884), but listed as such only between 1878 and 1880