• Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
Little Totty
pcb2945
pcb2945
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
  • Little Totty. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]. Variant B: [1859]. Courtesy of Toronto Public Library (FT LIT)
TITLE
Little Totty.
PUBLISHED
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
SERIES
Aunt Mavor's toy books [new series] : 35
Aunt Mavor's everlasting toy books
PRICE
6d.
1s. : "Mounted with Cloth, and Cloth Covers"
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
Toy book
DESCRIPTION
Size
24,1x17,7 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned, possibly the same as pcb2506, engraved and printed in black by Evans, hand-coloured; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Statement of responsibility (engraver and printer; also see pcb2506)
Source for date
List of titles on lower wrapper
Documents state first edition in October 1859 and reissues until September 1873 with a total of 16000 copies
Before 1859, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 9 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [third series] (see pcb2506)
Reissued as no. 6 of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, but listed as such only between 1876 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
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Chromo-relief
Relief
Hand-colouring
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1859]: possibly earlier than variant B; upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in red and black on pale yellow paper, same as pcb2836, variant A, with engraved series name and publishers caption; specific for this title: title: "[red, outlined in black] LITTLE TOTTY"; picture from p. 2; 1859 lower wrapper uniform for the series, same as pcb2672, variant A, printed in black on pale yellow paper; at foot, inside the frame: "LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET."; at foot, outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
Variant B
[1859]: possibly later than variant A; upper wrapper uniform for the series, same as variant A but on yellow paper and with type-set series name and publishers' caption; 1859 lower wrapper uniform for the series, same as variant A
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1975 Osborne, I.36
2006 Masaki, I.401-02, II.C19, E4-5 (TPL-OsC: FI LIT)
COPIES
NLS: Mas.424(2) (variant A: [1859]; note that the frame on the lower wrapper is not cracked; bound with other titles)
TPL-OsC: FT LIT (variant B: [1859]; note that the frame on the lower wrapper is heavily cracked; analysed through digital reproduction; Digital copy)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 601: "Little Totty (Mavor's toys). 1859 Oct. 15, 2000. 1861 Feb., 2000. 1862 Aug. 16, 2000. 1863 Oct. 1, 2000. 1864 Oct. 7, 2000. 1867 July 23, 2000. 1872 Jan. 1, 2000. 1873 Sep. 15, 2000.")
OTHER VERSIONS
First published as
Little Totty. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., [1856]
PERMALINK
https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2945
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Little Totty". In PiCoBoo, accessed July 11, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2945