• The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
The three bears

pcb2602
pcb2602
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
  • The three bears. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]. Variant B: [1858]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box IV (iii))
TITLE
The three bears.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1857].
PRICE
6d.
1s. : "Mounted with Cloth, and Cloth Covers"
AUTHOR
Crowquill, Alfred (Alfred Henry Forrester) (illustrator)
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
McConnell, William (illustrator)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
25x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
See pcb2415
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 of responsibility (illustrator, inside illustrations, see pcb2415)
Stylistic analysis (upper wrapper design, see pcb2479)
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of September 1857
Listed in 1858 publishers' advertisements as no. 17 of 39 of the collective Aunt Mavor's toy books for little readers series (see pcb2602, variant B)
Listed in all publishers' advertisements for the series until 1865 but, after 1860, it was substituted with pcb2598, with same title, series name and number, but different contents
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
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1857]: untraced
Variant B
[1858]: upper wrapper as pcb2479, on buff paper; specific for this title, plain lettering: "[red, outlined in black] THE THREE BEARS"; lower wrapper printed in black on buff paper, with publishers' advertisements, framed: "[fancy] Illustrated Juvenile Books, | PUBLISHED BY GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET. | ROUTLEDGE'S EVERLASTING BOOKS. | […] | In double fscap., 64 pages, large type. Price One Shilling. | ROUTLEDGE'S EVERLASTING PRIMER. | [...] With illustrations by John Gilbert, Harvey, etc. | […] | In double fscap., 96 pages, large type. Eighteen Pence each. | ROUTLEDGE'S EVERLASTING PICTURE READING BOOKS. | [titles 1-4] | In square 16mo., 24 pages each. | ROUTLEDGE'S EVERLASTING SIXPENNY PRIMERS. | [titles 1-4] | The cheapest primers ever printed. | ROUTLEDGE'S TWOPENNY CLOTH FIRST BOOKS. Illustrated. | [titles 1-4] | ROUTLEDGE'S PENNY CLOTH BATTLEDORES. Illustrated. | [titles 1-6] | In Super-royal, 8vo, price Sixpence each on Paper, or printed on Cloth, One Shilling, with Cloth Cover. | AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS FOR LITTLE READERS. | [three columns, each with a separate list of the series, titles 1-13, 14-26, 27-39] | LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & CO., FARRINGDON-STREET."; outside the frame, at foot: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street."
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.380-81
COPIES
NAL: 60.Y Box IV (iii) (variant B: [1858]; worn copy, pasted with paper tape)
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "The three bears". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2602