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Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)

Greedy Ben

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Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866]. Courtesy of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries (PZ86.1 1867 .G74)

TITLE

Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None.

VARIANT TITLE

First line
When children are in a garden.

PUBLISHED

London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1866].

PRINTED

[London] : Edmund Evans.

SERIES

Ward, Lock, & Tyler's New Shilling Series of Painted Toy-Books : 8

PRICE

1s.

AUTHOR

Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Votteler, Christian (illustrator)
Ward, Lock, & Tyler (publisher)

TYPOLOGY

Toy book

DESCRIPTION

Size
25x23 cm
Format and pagination
4° : 12 ll. : 6 ll. text, [6] ll pls : col. ill.
Signatures
A/C⁴in 12s
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between C2.3, A1.4 pasted to B1.4); ll. text numbered [1] 2–6
Covers
Up. wpr, unsigned, reproducing three vignettes, not included in the publication, also used for nos. 9–10, col. ptd (red, green, black) on yellow paper; on up. wpr: 'COLOURED PICTURES, PRICE 1s. INDESTRUCTIBLE EDITION. PRICE 2s. | [black, outlined in black] GREEDY BEN | [on the two sides of the upper vignette, inserted in scrolls, left] THE | NAUGHTY BOY | WHO WANTED | [right] CHERRIES | AND WHO | GOT NONE | ... | LONDON : WARD, LOCK & TYLER, 158, FLEET STREET, E.C.'
Low. wpr ptd (black) on yellow paper; on low. wpr, advts for 'Ward, Lock, & Tyler’s | New Shilling Series of Painted Toy-Books' including titles nos. [8–10]: 'London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, 158, Fleet Street, | and 107, Dorset Street, Salisbury Square. | Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street.'
On ins. wpr, advts for 'Beautifully Illustrated Books for Children. ... Ward, Lock and Tyler’s Elementary Educational Works.'
Illustrations
6 ills, one per page, monogd 'CV' on pls 1, 3, col. ptd on one side of the sheet (blue, pink, black), the other colours (yellow, dark and light red, brown, dark blue, ochre) applied with the use of stencils and/or brushes
Text, ptd on one side of the sheet (black), faces ills
Source for attribution
Monogram
Stylistically close to nos. 9–10 of this series
Source for date
BL accession stamp

NOTES

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

PRINTING TECHNIQUES

Chromo-relief
Hand-coloured

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1999 Rülhe, 197, 460a

COPIES

BL: 12806.h.102. (accession stamp dated 19MY66)
UR: PZ86.1 1867 .G74 (Mary Faulk Markiewicz Collection of Children's Books; n.p.a.)

TRADE COPIES

Aleph-Bet Books: Catalogue 114 (2016), no. 214 (n.a.)

OTHER VERSIONS

Has version/s
Greedy Ben : The Naughty Boy Who Wanted Cherries and Who Got None. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [before 1870]