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Genre/Form: | Authors' presentation inscriptions Bands (binding components) Bookbinders' ornaments Bookplates Calf bindings Etched frontispieces (illustrations) Etchings Fillets (motifs) Gilt edges (gathered matter components Gold-tooled bindings (gathered matter components Headbands (binding components) Illustrated wrappers (book covers) Presentation inscriptions Publishers' advertisements Title page rule borders) Turn-ins Children's books Fairy tales Juvenile literature Adaptations Printed wrappers (Binding) |
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Material Type: | Fiction, Juvenile audience |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
George Cruikshank; George Barclay; David Bogue; Mary Emily Hullah; Anne Renier; Fernand Gabriel Renier; Rintoul, Mrs; National Art Library (Great Britain). Forster Collection.; Riviere & Son, |
OCLC Number: | 1008480967 |
Notes: | Binding of pale green paper wrappers. Upper cover with title, series title, imprint, illustration and 'price one shilling'. Publisher's advertisement for 'Jack and the beanstalk' (also in this series) on lower cover. Copy [A] acquired by the Reniers from 'S' in August 1968. Copy [A] donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier. Copy [A] initialled in ink 'AR' (ie. Anne Renier) on lower flyleaf. Copy [A] rebound in light brown calfskin, by Riviere and Son, (between 1900 and 1919?), according to Anne Renier's catalogue entry. Covers bordered with gilt fillets. Spine with two raised bands and gold tooled with fillets and floral ornaments. Headbands. Title and author lettered in gilt on spine. Gold tooled turn-ins. Gilt edges. Dark blue endpapers. Copy [A] with presentation inscription in ink on title page reads: 'Mary Emily Hullah from Mrs Rintoul, 1854'. Copy [A] with presentation inscription in ink on title page reads: 'With the compliments of Geo. Cruikshank'. Copy [A]: Bookplate on upper pastedown reads: 'From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier'. Copy [B] bound with: A letter from Hop-o'-My-Thumb to Charles Dickens, esq. : upon "Frauds on the fairies," "Whole hogs," & c (8 p.: ill. ; 18 cm) (London: D. Bogue, [1853]). Copy [B] donated by John Forster. Copy [B] with presentation inscription on prelims. reads: 'John Forster esq. with the regards of George Cruikshank, July 15th 1853'. Illustrated with etchings, including frontispiece. Title page printed within double-ruled border. Undated. Dated from the catalogue of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910, cited below. List of plates follows text. |
Description: | 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
Series Title: | George Cruikshank's fairy library, 1. |
Other Titles: | George Cruikshank's Fairy Library Hop o my thumb & the seven league boots |
Responsibility: | edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. |
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