Choice Nursery Songs
pcb670
TITLE
Choice Nursery Songs.
PUBLISHED
London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1868].
PRINTED
London : Leighton, Brothers.
SERIES
PRICE
1s.
AUTHOR
Dalziel, Brothers (engraver) ![]()
Foster, Myles Birket (illustrator)![]()
Leighton, Brothers (printer)![]()
Ward, Lock, & Tyler (publisher)![]()
Foster, Myles Birket (illustrator)
Leighton, Brothers (printer)
Ward, Lock, & Tyler (publisher)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Covers
Same upper wrapper as pcb667, printed in red, orange, yellow, blue and the black key on white paper; specific to this picturebook, at centre, inserted in a clover inscribed by the four arches: "[fancy, blue] Choice | [fancy, orange] Nursery | [fancy, shaded, blue] Songs | [orange] Printed | in | [blue] Colours"
Same lower wrapper as pcb667
Same upper wrapper as pcb667, printed in red, orange, yellow, blue and the black key on white paper; specific to this picturebook, at centre, inserted in a clover inscribed by the four arches: "[fancy, blue] Choice | [fancy, orange] Nursery | [fancy, shaded, blue] Songs | [orange] Printed | in | [blue] Colours"
Same lower wrapper as pcb667
ADVERTISEMENTS
Publishers' Circular (December 10, 1868), 789: see pcb667
COPIES
BL: X.995/37 (2nd folder, 5th publication; accession stamp dated 7OC68; obsolete shelfmark: 12806.k.(3))
CUL: 146.1.29(3) (publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper; not analysed)
UTMC-McL: McLean T 0082 (on upper wrapper: "Price 1s., Beautifully Coloured. Indestructible Edition on Strong Cloth, 2s."; colour wood-engraved plates were also used in Songs for the little ones at home, published in 1860 by Sampson Low, Son, & Co and by Joseph Cundall in 1863; this title names Birket Foster and John Absolon as illustrators; first and last leaves pasted to wrappers; includes wood-engraved decorative initials; leaves with colour wood-engraved illustrations, decorative initials printed in red and floriated borders printed in green and brown are with imprint: "Leighton, Brothers."; one wood-engraved illustration is signed "BF" and another is signed "Dalziel"; some colour wood-engraved illustrations are with signature: "BF" [i.e. Birket Foster], others are unsigned; in original white printed paper wrappers; upper wrapper printed in yellow, blue and red with titling and elaborate wood-engraved illustrated and decorative border; lower wrapper printed with publisher's advertisements entitled "Beautifully Illustrated Books for Children" and includes imprint: "Leighton, Brothers, Printers."; not analysed)
CUL: 146.1.29(3) (publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper; not analysed)
UTMC-McL: McLean T 0082 (on upper wrapper: "Price 1s., Beautifully Coloured. Indestructible Edition on Strong Cloth, 2s."; colour wood-engraved plates were also used in Songs for the little ones at home, published in 1860 by Sampson Low, Son, & Co and by Joseph Cundall in 1863; this title names Birket Foster and John Absolon as illustrators; first and last leaves pasted to wrappers; includes wood-engraved decorative initials; leaves with colour wood-engraved illustrations, decorative initials printed in red and floriated borders printed in green and brown are with imprint: "Leighton, Brothers."; one wood-engraved illustration is signed "BF" and another is signed "Dalziel"; some colour wood-engraved illustrations are with signature: "BF" [i.e. Birket Foster], others are unsigned; in original white printed paper wrappers; upper wrapper printed in yellow, blue and red with titling and elaborate wood-engraved illustrated and decorative border; lower wrapper printed with publisher's advertisements entitled "Beautifully Illustrated Books for Children" and includes imprint: "Leighton, Brothers, Printers."; not analysed)
OCLCN
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Choice Nursery Songs". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 16, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb670