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The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books -
The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books -
The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books -
The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant C: [after 1882]. Reproduced from coverbrowser.com
The dog's dinner party
pcb2813
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The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books
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The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books
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The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant B: [1876-1877]. Courtesy Roe and Moore Rare Books
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The dog's dinner party. - London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866]. Variant C: [after 1882]. Reproduced from coverbrowser.com
TITLE
The dog's dinner party.
VARIANT TITLE
Title from page 1
The dogs' dinner party.
The dogs' dinner party.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Sons, [1866].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
SERIES
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, paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, engraved and signed by Evans, 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
Signature (engraver)
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Between 1859 and 1865, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 22 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2651)
Reissued as no. 7 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series but not listed as such in publishers' advertisements before 1880
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of January 1883 as no. 123 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series and listed as such in 1882 publishers' advertisements
24,5x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, engraved and signed by Evans, 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
Signature (engraver)
Statement of responsibility (printer of wrappers)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Between 1859 and 1865, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 22 of Aunt Mavor's toy books (see pcb2651)
Reissued as no. 7 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series but not listed as such in publishers' advertisements before 1880
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of January 1883 as no. 123 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series and listed as such in 1882 publishers' 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
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]: untraced
Variant B
[1876-1877]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on yellow paper; inserted in a plain red frame, at head: "AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS. | Price SIXPENCE; or Mounted on Linen, ONE SHILLING."; at centre, picture; at foot: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] THE DOG'S | DINNER PARTY"; picture from an inside illustration, not analysed, arched on top, signed "E. EVANS Sc."; 1876-1877 lower wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black on yellow paper with publishers' advertisements, variant with nos. 48 and 56 without asterisks: "ROUTLEDGE'S | NEW SIXPENCE TOY BOOKS. | [...] | [two halves, two columns, first: 2, 5-6, 23, 26, 29, 31-33, 38-39, *41, 43, 46-48,50-51, 53-54, 56, 58-59; second: 63, 65-68, *71-*74, 75-76, *79-*82, 86, 93-94, 99, 101-102, 115; second half, Walter Crane titles, 63 repeated]"; at foot, inside the frame: "GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
Variant C
[after 1882]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, same as variant B but printed in red, blue and black on yellow paper; picture from the same inside illustration but unframed, not arched on top and with the blue colour added; series number on lower left corner: "123" (hence the date); lower wrapper not analysed
[1866]: untraced
Variant B
[1876-1877]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on yellow paper; inserted in a plain red frame, at head: "AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS. | Price SIXPENCE; or Mounted on Linen, ONE SHILLING."; at centre, picture; at foot: "LONDON: | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] THE DOG'S | DINNER PARTY"; picture from an inside illustration, not analysed, arched on top, signed "E. EVANS Sc."; 1876-1877 lower wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black on yellow paper with publishers' advertisements, variant with nos. 48 and 56 without asterisks: "ROUTLEDGE'S | NEW SIXPENCE TOY BOOKS. | [...] | [two halves, two columns, first: 2, 5-6, 23, 26, 29, 31-33, 38-39, *41, 43, 46-48,50-51, 53-54, 56, 58-59; second: 63, 65-68, *71-*74, 75-76, *79-*82, 86, 93-94, 99, 101-102, 115; second half, Walter Crane titles, 63 repeated]"; at foot, inside the frame: "GEORGE ROUTLEDGE & SONS."; outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
Variant C
[after 1882]: upper wrapper uniform for the series, same as variant B but printed in red, blue and black on yellow paper; picture from the same inside illustration but unframed, not arched on top and with the blue colour added; series number on lower left corner: "123" (hence the date); lower wrapper not analysed
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.574 ("No separate copy survived"), 575, II.E22 (from a collective volume)
TRADE COPIES
Market copy (variant C: [after 1882]; upper wrapper analysed through digital reproduction)
Roe and Moore Rare Books: 6000291 (variant B: [1877]; on sale in March 2020; partially analysed through digital reproductions)
Roe and Moore Rare Books: 6000291 (variant B: [1877]; on sale in March 2020; partially analysed through digital reproductions)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "The dog's dinner party". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 19, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2813