Punch and Judy

pcb2494
pcb2494
TITLE
Punch and Judy.
PUBLISHED
London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., [1856].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
McConnell, William (illustrator)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Not analysed
Illustrations
8 illustrations, drawn by McConnell, engraved and printed in black by Evans, hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Documents (illustrator)
Statement of responsibility (engraver and printer; not analysed)
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of June 1856 as no. 31 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. 31 of Aunt Mavor's toy books
Reissued after 1859 as no. 31 of Aunt Mavor's toy books [new series] (see pcb2904)
Reissued as no. 14 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see pcb2908), but listed as such only between 1878 and 1882
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.393 (see pcb2478), 398
COPIES
MUBL: 760.2/9 (described as: "G. Routledge [1860?]"; not analysed)
NYSL: 808.89928 P984 96-165 (described as: "London : G. Routledge & Co., [ca. 1860] (London : Edmund Evans)"; not analysed)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 331: "Mavor's toy books 3rd series, 1856 Aug. 4, 1st edition 4000", 378: "Aunt Mavor's toys 3rd series nos. 27 to 39. 1856 July 22 1st edition 4000. 1857 March 10, 2nd edition 2000. ... McConnell – viz. 31, 32, 28")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Punch and Judy". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2494