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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The "Little Folks" Crayon Book: A Series of Outline Engravings For Coloring in Crayon Or Painting in Water-Color |
| Date | c.1881 |
| Record ID | 222205 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Sub Collection | Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators |
| Reference | CL W3627 L778 1881 F |
| Theme | Family and Relationships Animals and Nature Leisure and Play |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Poetry Picture books Women as illustrators Coloring books Poems Advertisements Artists' materials Publishers' advertisements New York (State) New York (N.Y.) Plates |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse Fables Pictorial Works |
| Author | Weatherly, George |
| Publisher | Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co |
| Illustrator | E M R Lawson, Lizzie Greenaway, Kate (1846-1901) |
| Document Type | Coloring/Drawing Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1881 Coloring books--1881 Poems--1881 Advertisements--Artists' materials Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Trans-Atlantic imprints (Publishing) Color printing (Printing) Color printing (Printing)--Plates Pictorial bindings (Binding) Publishers' paper bindings (Binding) Chromolithographs Relief prints |
| Size | viii, [1], 10-96 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (1 col.) ; 23 cm |
| Catalog Notes | "The 'Little folks' crayon book has been prepared as a companion volume to the 'Little folks' painting book ... One of these stories and a few of the shorter rhymes have already appeared in Little folks magazine; the rest are published now for the first time."--Preface, p. [v]-vi. Cover transcription: The little folks crayon book[.] Illustrations by Lizzie Lawson and others[.] Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. London, Paris & New York. "Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co., 739 & 741 Broadway, New York."--publisher's advertisement, lower cover. Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co. moved into 739 and 741 Broadway, New York, in 1881. Cf. Tebbel, J. Hist. of book publishing in the U.S., 1975, v. II, p. 17. In stiff-paper cover. Cover and frontispiece plate chromolithographed. "Lizzie Lawson" is the pseudonym of Lizzie Mack, author and illustrator. Illustrations variously signed "L.L." (i.e., Lizzie Lawson), "KG" (i.e., Kate Greenaway), and "E.M.R." (p. 61). Advertisements for an artist's paint set and watercolors, upper pastedown and free endpapers. Publisher's advertisements for art books, lower pastedown and free endpapers. Publisher's advertisements for coloring books, lower cover. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
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