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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284) -
Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
Hop o' my thumb
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
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Hop o' my thumb. - George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant A: [1866]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.W.284)
TITLE
Hop o' my thumb.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from advertisement
Hop o'my thumb.
Hop o'my thumb.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866].
PRINTED
[London] : Leighton Brothers.
PRICE
6d.
1s. : "Mounted on Cloth"
1s. : "Mounted on Cloth"
AUTHOR
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Size
24,5x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, pages 4-5 pasted to 3; paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Wrappers printed in red and black by Leighton Brothers and inside illustrations printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Stylistic analysis (printer of inside illustrations, by comparison with pcb2672, variant D-E)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Between 1859 and 1865, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 24 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2672), with inside illustrations printed in black, possibly by Evans, and hand-coloured until 1865 and printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans after 1865
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July 1866 as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see hereby, Documents: 1st edition as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books, September 1866, with a print run of 5000 copies)
Between 1866 and 1870, listed in publishers' advertisements as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
After 1868, it was reissued as no. 43 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, listed as such in publishers' advertisements between 1871 and 1882
24,5x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, pages 4-5 pasted to 3; paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Wrappers printed in red and black by Leighton Brothers and inside illustrations printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Stylistic analysis (printer of inside illustrations, by comparison with pcb2672, variant D-E)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Between 1859 and 1865, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 24 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2672), with inside illustrations printed in black, possibly by Evans, and hand-coloured until 1865 and printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans after 1865
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July 1866 as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series (see hereby, Documents: 1st edition as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books, September 1866, with a print run of 5000 copies)
Between 1866 and 1870, listed in publishers' advertisements as no. 3 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
After 1868, it was reissued as no. 43 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, listed as such in publishers' advertisements between 1871 and 1882
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
Documents make no difference between this title as belonging to Aunt Mavor's toy books series or to Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Documents make no difference between this title as belonging to Aunt Mavor's toy books series or to Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1866]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on yellow paper; same decorated red frame as pcb2620, variant B, but, at head: "AUNT MAVOR'S EVERLASTING TOY BOOKS."; inserted in a red banner: "ONE SHILLING."; at foot: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, | BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL."; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] HOP | O' MY THUMB"; picture from p. 8, the same as variants A-E; 1866 lower wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black on yellow paper; at foot: "GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, | LONDON AND NEW YORK."; at foot, outside the frame: "LEIGHTON, BROTHERS, PRINTERS, MILFORD LANE, STRAND."; inside illustrations printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans
Variant B
[1866]: on paper; untraced
[1866]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on yellow paper; same decorated red frame as pcb2620, variant B, but, at head: "AUNT MAVOR'S EVERLASTING TOY BOOKS."; inserted in a red banner: "ONE SHILLING."; at foot: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, | BROADWAY, LUDGATE HILL."; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] HOP | O' MY THUMB"; picture from p. 8, the same as variants A-E; 1866 lower wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black on yellow paper; at foot: "GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND SONS, | LONDON AND NEW YORK."; at foot, outside the frame: "LEIGHTON, BROTHERS, PRINTERS, MILFORD LANE, STRAND."; inside illustrations printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, pink and the black key by Evans
Variant B
[1866]: on paper; untraced
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.495 ("Leighton Brothers [...] using the design [...] engraved by Edmund Evans" [in fact, the inside illustrations are printed in colour by Evans, Leighton Brothers printing the wrappers only]), 496, II.E17 (NAL: 60.W.284)
COPIES
NAL: 60.W.284 (variant A: [1866]; despite the caption on upper wrapper, it is not mounted on cloth)
UTMC-McL: McLean T 0042 (described as: "Aunt Mavor's Toy Books ... Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Cloth, One Shilling. ... Leighton, Bros."; not analysed)
UTMC-McL: McLean T 0042 (described as: "Aunt Mavor's Toy Books ... Price Sixpence; or Mounted on Cloth, One Shilling. ... Leighton, Bros."; not analysed)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
OTHER VERSIONS
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Hop o' my thumb". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 15, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2753