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The Babes in the wood

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Babes in the wood

Other titles: Children in the wood (Ballad)

Level: Item

Classmark: Illustrated Books Collection B-2/CAL

Additional creator(s): Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886) (Other); Evans, Edmund (1826-1905) (Other)

Related people: Caldecott, Randolph; Evans, Edmund

Publisher: George Routledge

Publication city: [London]

Date(s): [ca. 1879?]

Language: English

Size and medium: 30 p

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/307077

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991005223319705181

Description

"One of R. Caldecott's picture books" -- cover.


Cover title.


Colours of covers vary.


Text is that of the ballad The Children in the wood, beginning "Now ponder well, you parents deare".


"Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Ra[c]quet Court, Fleet Street."--back cover.


Listed in English catalogue III, p. 74: "4to, 1s Routledge 1879"; dated 1880 in Osborne Coll.


Publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's shilling toy books" nos. 1-79, with gaps (Walter Crane's titles separately listed), listing "R. Caldecott's picture books" (The house that Jack built, John Gilpin, Elegy on a mad dog, and The babes in the wood), unnumbered, at end.


Indexed in: Osborne Coll I, p. 23.

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Wanting covers

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