The farm yard
pcb3127
VARIANT TITLE
Title from advertisement
The farm-yard : with large coloured illustrations by Harrison Weir.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1857].
London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
DESCRIPTION
Size
21,5x17 cm
Source for attribution
Signature (engraver)
Monogramme (illustrator)
On lower wrapper of variant B, this title is advertised as "By Miss Bowman. Illustrated by Harrison Weir"; from reviews quoted in publishers' catalogues, her first name was Anne
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of September, 1857, as no. 2 of Routledge’s one shilling toy books (7 titles)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of December, 1858, as no. 2 of Routledge’s one shilling toy books & funny books (13 titles)
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of July, 1866, as no. 17 of Routledge’s new sixpenny toy books (21 titles)
NOTES
The publishers' caption "Routledge & Co." was in use before November 1858, when George Routledge took his eldest son Robert Warne Routledge into partnership
The publishers' caption "Routledge, Warne, and Routledge" was in use after May 1859, when William Henry Warne died, aged only 37
Between November 1858 and May 1859 the publishers' caption "Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge" was in use
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1857]: paper-over-board front and back covers printed in blue and red and the black key on yellow paper; on front cover, at head, engraved and printed in black: "ONE SHILLING OR ON CLOTH EIGHTEEN PENCE."; at foot, engraved and printed in red and black: "LONDON. G. ROUTLEDGE & Co"; on back cover, publishers' advertisements, framed: "JUVENILE WORKS | PUBLISHED BY | GEORGE ROUTLEDGE AND CO., FARRINGDON STREET, LONDON. | ROUTLEDGE'S ILLUSTRATED ONE SHILLING JUVENILES. | Pott 8vo. [...] Two or more Illustrations [...] | [titles nos. 1-21] | ROUTLEDGE'S SIXPENNY JUVENILES. | [titles nos. 1-27] | AUNT MAVOR'S TOY BOOKS FOR LITTLE READERS. | [titles nos. 1-39]"; at foot, outside the frame: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street."
Variant B
[1859]: paper-over-board front and back covers printed in blue and red and the black key on greenish-blue paper; on front cover, at head, typeset and printed in black: "ONE SHILLING. WITH COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS."; at foot, engraved and printed in black: "LONDON: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, & ROUTLEDGE."; back cover, publishers' advertisements, framed: "[fancy] New Juvenile Publications | In Fcap. 4to, price One Shilling each, with Cloth Covers, | ROUTLEDGES' [sic] NEW TOY BOOKS, | With Large Designs by C.H. BENNETT, NOEL HUMPHREYS, HARRISON WEIR [...] | [titles nos. 1-15] | ROUTLEDGES' [sic] | EIGHTEENPENNY BOOKS FOR YOUNG READERS, | In Crown 8vo, [...] ABSOLON, GILBERT, HARRISON WEIR [...] | [titles nos. 1-8] | LONDON: ROUTLEDGE, WARNE, AND ROUTLEDGE, FARRINGDON STREET."; at foot, outside the frame: "EDMUND EVANS, ENGRAVER AND PRINTER, RAQUET COURT, FLEET STREET."
COPIES
AAS: 505766 (variant A: [1857]; inscribed on front cover: "Very Good CNH"; analysed through digital reproduction)
BoL-OpC: Opie M 97 (variant B: [1859]; inscribed on upper paste-down: "Louisa <?> Leworth, the gift of Aunt Rebecca 1861")
CUL: no call number (apparently variant A: [1857]; described as: "London : C. [sic] Routledge & Co., [between 1852 and 1858?] ... At head of cover title: One shilling or in cloth eighteen-pence. Caption title: Visit to a farmyard. Illustrations printed in color; wood engravings signed, "H.W." (i.e., Harrison Weir) and by "Edmund Evans sc." Stubs apparent in between p. [6] and [7], and [10] and [11] (cancellation?). "Juvenile works published by George Routledge and Co., Farringdon Street ... Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court. Fleet Street."--Advertisement, back cover"; untraced)
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "The farm yard". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3127