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Old Mother Hubbard. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865]. Variant (1). Courtesy of Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (9950)
Old Mother Hubbard
pcb732
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Old Mother Hubbard. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865]. Variant (1). Courtesy of Cotsen Children's Library, Princeton University Library (9950)
TITLE
Old Mother Hubbard.
PUBLISHED
London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865].
PRINTED
[London] : Edmund Evans.
PRICE
1s.
AUTHOR
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
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 'Calvert' on pls 4–5, col. ptd on one side of the sheet (red, yellow, brown, pink, blue, black)
Text and decorative headpieces, ptd on one side of the sheet (red), face ills
Registering marks
Registering marks on pls 2 (3 blue dots, upper left side) and 3 (3 blue dots, lower left side)
Source for attribution
Signature (signed with same signature identified with the painter Edward Calvert (1799–1883; 2004 Darton), but more likely belonging to the Calvert described by George Augustus Sala (1828–1895) as publisher Edward Lloyd's chief engraver living '"over the water" in Belvedere Road, Lambeth' (1895 Sala, I.173–5; see 2012 Blake, 39).
Source for date
Advts
List of titles on low. and ins. wpr
BL accession stamp
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 'Calvert' on pls 4–5, col. ptd on one side of the sheet (red, yellow, brown, pink, blue, black)
Text and decorative headpieces, ptd on one side of the sheet (red), face ills
Registering marks
Registering marks on pls 2 (3 blue dots, upper left side) and 3 (3 blue dots, lower left side)
Source for attribution
Signature (signed with same signature identified with the painter Edward Calvert (1799–1883; 2004 Darton), but more likely belonging to the Calvert described by George Augustus Sala (1828–1895) as publisher Edward Lloyd's chief engraver living '"over the water" in Belvedere Road, Lambeth' (1895 Sala, I.173–5; see 2012 Blake, 39).
Source for date
Advts
List of titles on low. and ins. wpr
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
ADVERTISEMENTS
VARIANTS
Variant (1)
[1865]; up. wpr, unsigned, reproducing details from pls 1–3, 6, col. ptd (red, blue, ochre, black); on up. wpr: 'ONE SHILLING. | [blue, outlined in black] OLD MOTHER HUBBARD | ... | LONDON: | WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER.'; same low. wpr as pcb307 (1) (a); blank ins. wpr
Variant (2)
[1866]; same as variant (1); ins. wpr with publishers' advts for 'Beautifully Illustrated Books for Children ... Ward, Lock and Tyler's Elementary Educational Works'; both these advertisements were in use in 1866 and are consistent with those used, for example, in pcb553
[1865]; up. wpr, unsigned, reproducing details from pls 1–3, 6, col. ptd (red, blue, ochre, black); on up. wpr: 'ONE SHILLING. | [blue, outlined in black] OLD MOTHER HUBBARD | ... | LONDON: | WARD, LOCK, AND TYLER.'; same low. wpr as pcb307 (1) (a); blank ins. wpr
Variant (2)
[1866]; same as variant (1); ins. wpr with publishers' advts for 'Beautifully Illustrated Books for Children ... Ward, Lock and Tyler's Elementary Educational Works'; both these advertisements were in use in 1866 and are consistent with those used, for example, in pcb553
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2025 Tancini, I.213
COPIES
BL: RB.23.b.4275 (variant (1): [1865]; accession stamp dated 10OC65; Digital copy)
PUL-CCL: 9950 (variant (2): [1866])
PUL-CCL: 9950 (variant (2): [1866])
OTHER VERSIONS
OCLCN
KEYWORDS
PERMALINK
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Old Mother Hubbard". In PiCoBoo, accessed June 14, 2025, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb732