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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Diverting History of John Gilpin / 1895 |
| Date | 1895 |
| Record ID | 526217 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB064 |
| Theme | Animals and Nature Leisure and Play |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Horses Horsemanship Wit and humor Juvenile |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse |
| Author | Cowper, William (1731-1800) |
| Publisher | Frederick Warne & Co |
| Places | London |
| Illustrator | Caldecott, Randolph (1846-1886) |
| Document Type | Picture Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1895 Poems--1895 Publishers' advertisements--England--London Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Trans-Atlantic imprints (Publishing) Color printing (Printing) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Printed wrappers (Binding) Chromolithographs Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | 31, [1] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm |
| Catalog Notes | Cover title; series from head of title. Caption title: The diverting history of John Gilpin: showing how he went farther than he intended, and came safe home again. Written by Wm. Cowper[.] With drawings by R. Caldecott. Pagination includes cover. Randolph Caldecott's picture books ... London ... & New York."--advertisement, back cover. Advertisement includes The Pajandrum picture book; Caldecott's The great panjandrum himself was first issued in 1885; cf. Henry Blackburn, Randolph Caldecott: a personal memoir of his early art career (1886), p. 213. According to OCLC, a copy of the Warne edition of The panjandrum picture book held at the University of Manchester Library has an inscription dated 1895. "Printed and copyrighted by Edmund Evans, Ltd., the Racquet Court Press, London, S.E."--foot of back cover. Cover and full-page illustrations chromolithographed to look like wood engravings. Illustration on p. [19] has four registration holes. |
| Linked Documents |
The Diverting History of John Gilpin / c.1881 |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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