Mamma's New Picture Alphabet.

First line
A was an Angler.

London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865].

[London] : Edmund Evans.

Ward, Lock, & Tyler's New Shilling Series of Painted Toy-Books : 6

1s.

Crane, Walter (illustrator)
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Ward, Lock, & Tyler (publisher)

Toy book
Alphabet book

Size
25x20 cm
Format and pagination
4° : 12 ll. : [6] ll. text, [6] ll. pls : col. ill.
Signatures
A/C⁴ in 12s
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between C2.3), unpaginated
Illustrations
6 ills, one per page, signed 'WC' on pls 2–3, 5–6, col. ptd on one side of the sheet (red, yellow, brown, pink, blue, black)
Text, ptd on one side of the sheet (blue), faces ills
Registering marks
Registering marks on pls 4 (6 blue dots, upper right side) and 6 (6 blue dots, lower right side)
Source for attribution
Signature
Drawings
Documents
Source for date
Advts
List of titles on low. and ins. wpr
BL accession stamp

Title and publication information are from up. wpr, which serves as tp, and from publishers' advts on ins. wpr

Chromo-relief
Resin-grain

Bookseller (30 Sep. 1865), 637: see pcb307
Publishers' Circular (2 Oct. 1865), 536

Variant (1) (a)
[1865]; up. wpr, unsigned, reproducing pl. 2, col. ptd (red, green, ochre, black); on up. wpr: 'ONE SHILLING. | [red, outlined in black] MAMMA'S NEW | PICTURE ALPHABET | ... | LONDON: | WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER.'; same low. wpr as pcb307 (1) (a); same ins. wpr as pcb307 (1) (b)
Variant (1) (b)
[1866]; same ins. wpr as pcb553, with books published in 1866

2016s Tancini, 178–80
2017 Masaki, 14, 170
2019 Cotsen, I.264, cat. 1478
2025 Tancini, I.224–7 (T4 (1))

BL: 12806.h.101. (variant (1) (a): [1865]; accession stamp dated 4JA66)
PUL-CCL: 9954 (variant (1) (b): [1866])
DPL: 372.465 M311 (variant (1) (b): [1866])

Roe and Moore Rare Books (variant (1) (a): [1865]; sold in 2015)

Drawings
BM: 1933,0411.11 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 1; inscribed 'A angler. B bridge. C coach. D dog.')
BM: 1933,0411.12 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 2; inscribed 'E eggs. F fowls. G girl. H horse.')
BM: 1933,0411.13 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 3; inscribed 'I ivy. J jumping. K kite. L Lambs. M mushrooms. N nest.')
BM: 1933,0411.14 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 4; inscribed 'O official. P people. Q quick. R railway.')
BM: 1933,0411.15 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 5; inscribed 'S ship. T tar. U union jack. V voyage.'; titled by BM: There is a garden in her face)
BM: 1933,0411.16 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing, not used; inscribed 'W X Y Z')
BM: 1933,0411.17 (ink, watercolour and graphite on paper drawing for pl. 6; inscribed, upside down, in Evans's handwriting 'approved E.E.')
Documents
JRUL: WCA/2/2/2/1/17 (loose sheet formerly inserted in WCA/2/2/2/1 between ff. 16–17, possibly with references to Mamma's New Picture Alphabet: 'October 21, 1865. Edmund Evans Esq.re to Walter Crane. Designing and drawing. August 31. An Alphabet 6 blocks (£2) £12 0')

Included in
The Holiday Picture Book : With Pretty Verses and Merry Rhymes, Cleverly and Comically Illustrated with Large Pictures in Colours. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]
Has version/s
Mamma's New Picture Alphabet. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [before 1870]
Has version/s
Mamma's New Picture Alphabet. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1873]
Included in
The Nursery Friend : Containing Mamma's Picture Alphabet, Master Mousie's Supper Party, The Death and Burial of Cock Robin, Little Red Riding-Hood. - London : Ward, Lock and Co., [1877]

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Francesca Tancini, "Mamma's New Picture Alphabet". In PiCoBoo, accessed June 14, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb525