Heedless Harry's day of disasters.

Cover title
Fun for little folks.
Title from advertisement
Fun for little folk.

London : Darton & Co., [1855].

Darton's indestructible elementary children's books : 2

6d. : in oil colours
1s. : indestructible
1s. 6d. : washable indestructible

Calvert (engraver)
Darton & Co. (publisher)

Indestructible book

Size
25 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll. : [8] leaves : col. ill.
Signatures
A⁸
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A4.5), unpaginated
Binding
Same upper and lower wrapper as pcb4183
Upper wrapper, signed "CALVERT SC.", chromo-lithographically printed in red and blue on white paper; on upper wrapper, design of a boy with feathered hat riding a donkey surrounded by children and animals; title panel, blank, framed by birds; lower wrapper printed in blue on white paper
On lower wrapper, inserted in a frame, publishers' advertisements: "DARTON'S | INDESTRUCTIBLE | ELEMENTARY CHILDREN'S BOOKS. | Alphabets and First Books, with Easy Words, | in Great Variety. | [titles nos. 1-19] | LONDON: | DARTON AND CO., 58, HOLBORN HILL."
Illustrations
8 illustrations, one per page, in the upper half of each page, printed on one side of the sheet only in black, hand-coloured
Source for attribution
Signature (engraver of upper wrapper)
Source for date
Advertisements
Publishers' caption: "Darton and Co., 58, Holborn Hill" in use between 1844 and 1866

Listed on the lower wrapper of My pet birds (TPL-OsC: NS MY)

Chromo-lithography
Relief
Hand-colouring

Publishers' Circular (November 15, 1855), 436: "Darton's Indestructible Books. Nos. 1 and 2, each 1s. [4655"

1975 Osborne, I:259
2004 Darton, H703: "c. 1850"; H917 (2): "c. 1855-60"

ANUL: Mortlake 09336 (not analysed)
BL: RB.23.b.4282 (H703; dated: [ca. 1845]; not analysed)
BoL-OpC: Opie M 315 (not analysed)
BoL-OpC: Opie M 316 (not analysed)
BrM: BJ1631 .H44 1840z (not analysed)
CUL: 8000.b.87 (not analysed)
MUL: PAM 820.8 H458 (Lindsay Shaw Collection; not analysed)
NAL-ReC: 862.AA.0927 (not analysed)
NAL-ReC: 862.AA.0928 (not analysed)
NAL-ReC: B.AA.HEEH.DA.1850 (5 copies; not analysed)
NLS: FB.l.172(27) (not analysed)
PML: 086931 (from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman; not analysed)
PSU: BF1631.H4 1850 (not analysed)
PUL-CCL: 12588 (not analysed)
TPL-OsC: SB HEE (H703; dated by TPL-OsC: [ca. 1850]; analysed through digital reproductions; Digital copy)
UBC: PZ6 1850 .H443 (not analysed)
UCLA: PZ8 .H36 1850 (not analysed)
UFBL: 39p356 (not analysed)
UR: PZ86.1 1836 .H44 (described as: "London : Darton and Clark, Holborn Hill"; not analysed)

Second Story Books: 1228232 (H703)
Sue Lloyd-Davis Books: 120065 (H703)
Roe and Moore Rare Books: 6000281 (H703)

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https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3719

Francesca Tancini, "Heedless Harry's day of disasters". In PiCoBoo, accessed June 14, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3719