- Robinson Crusoe picture book : containing, Robinson Crusoe ; How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas ; Queer characters ; Aesop's fables / with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
- The Robinson Crusoe picture book : containing, Robinson Crusoe ; How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas ; Queer characters ; Aesop's fables / with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim
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- Language:
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- English
- Call number:
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- Eng 19Q 152150
- Extent:
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- [30] leaves, 24 leaves of plates : col. ill ; 28 cm.
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Robinsonades
- Fables
- Publishers' cloth bindings
- Juvenile poetry
- Juvenile literature
- Description:
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- Dated from inscription on Cotsen copy (all 4 indiv. titles pub. sequentially in 1873 as part of Routledge's Shilling Series).
- Printed on alternate rectos and versos with blank guard-sheet leaves between.
- 4 separate works, each with its own t.p. (in addition to collective t.p. for the vol.), with different layouts bound together in 1 vol.: Crusoe is in verse, Cock Sparrow a prose work, Queer Characters a collection of short satiric poems with illustrations of animals dressed as people, and Aesop's Fables has 4 fables per page in this version, each set within a text box, with 4 corresponding illustrations per page.
- Routledge's "Picture Books" were cloth-bound compilations of 4 toy book titles, also published individually in wrappers.
- Illustrations: Each work with 6 chromolithographed plates by Kronheim.
- Cotsen copy: "Helen Newman, with Grandfather's love, Dec. 25th, 1873"--Inscribed on front free endpaper.
- Cotsen copy: "John Turton, antiquarian bookseller, 1-2 Cochrane Terrace, Willington, County Durham"--Ticket on front pastedown.
- Publisher:
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- London ; New York : George Routledge and Sons, [not after 1873]
- Subject:
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- Crusoe, Robinson (Fictitious character)—Juvenile poetry
- Adventure stories, English
- Shipwrecks—Juvenile literature
- Birds—Juvenile literature
- Wit and humor—Juvenile poetry
- Conduct of life—Juvenile literature
- Robinsonades—1873
- Fables
- Publishers' cloth bindings—England—1873
- Title sort:
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- Robinson Crusoe picture book : containing, Robinson Crusoe ; How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas ; Queer characters ; Aesop's fables / with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim.
- Created:
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- 1870-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1870
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/d217qw45m
- Location:
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- CTSN Eng 19Q 152150
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Uniform title:
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- Robinson Crusoe. Versifications
- Printer:
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- Kronheim & Co.
- Creator:
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- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Contributor:
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- George Routledge and Sons
- Binding note:
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- Pub. maroon bds., black- and gilt-stamped on upper with pictorial design of Crusoe and Friday watching a ship on the horizon (repeating plate [6]), gilt-stamped on spine with title, and blind-ruled on lower cover.
- Author:
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- Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
- Bookseller:
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- Turton, John