Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

pcb2955
pcb2955
TITLE
Cock Robin and Jenny Wren.
PUBLISHED
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
PRICE
6d.
1s. : "Mounted with Cloth, and Cloth Covers"
AUTHOR
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Routledge, Warne, and Routledge (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Untraced
Illustrations
8 illustrations, possibly the same as pcb2508, engraved and printed in black by Evans, hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Comparison with other titles of the series (engraver and printer; also see pcb2508)
Source for date
Documents state first edition in April 1859 and reissues until July 1877 with a total of 22000 copies
Before 1859, publishers' advertisements listed this title as no. 10 of Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [third series] (see pcb2508)
Reissued as no. [9] of Routledge's new sixpenny toy books series, listed, unnumbered, in 1866 and never afterwards
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Masaki, I.402-03
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 9 (p. 401: "Cock Robin's Burial (Mavor's toys). 1859 April 14, 2000. 1860 Aug. 8, 2000. Oct. 1, 2000. 1862 July 28, 2000. 1863 Jan. 26, 2000. 1864 Jan. 11, 2000. Oct. 17, 2000. 1865 Ot. 30, 2000. 1867 July 23, 2000. 1872 Jan. 1, 2000. 1877 July 1, 2000.")
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Cock Robin and Jenny Wren". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2955