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)
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.
Additional description
Wanting covers
Access and usage
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