- Randolph Caldecott's painting book : second series / pictures by R. Caldecott ; for little folks to colour
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- Language:
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- English
- Call number:
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- Eng 19 6959
- Extent:
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- [30] leaves : ill. (part col.) ; 21 x 24 cm.
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- Book
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- Printed boards (Binding).
- Coloring books
- Publishers advertisements
- Juvenile literature
- Description:
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- Title and imprint from t.p.; additional information from upper cover and rear pastedown.
- "Printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd., The Raquet Court Press, London, S.E."--Rear pastedown.
- Approximate date based on lower cover publisher's advertisement, which lists Mary Blaize and the Great Panjandrum (first published 1885).
- "A Few Practical Directions for Colouring" on front pastedown, and additional publisher's advertisement for Caldecott picture books on rear pastedown.
- The second of what Osborne terms "a series of four" painting books (cf. Osborne).
- Masaki terms this one of Caldecott's "landscape format" toy books, wider (24 cm) than tall (20 cm) (cf. Masaki, p. 132-6).
- Illustrations: 12 chromoxylographed plates, selected from Caldecott Picture Books originally published ca. 1878-1881 (from The Milkmaid to the Great Panjandrum), faced with 18 woodcut line-drawings meant to be colored in, most signed "RC."; frontis. illus. from Caldecott's "A Farmer Went Trotting ... ," with text added, with matching line-drawing on facing t.p.
- Cotsen copy: White Cotsen bookplate, dated 8/70, laid in, along with a small advertising flyer from J.B. Lippincott (Phila.).
- Publisher:
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- London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co., [after 1885] (London : Printed by Edmund Evans, Ltd., The Raquet Court Press)
- Subject:
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- Coloring for children
- Painting—Juvenile literature
- Nursery rhymes—Illustrations
- Printed boards (Binding).
- Coloring books
- Publishers advertisements
- Title sort:
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- Randolph Caldecott's painting book : second series / pictures by R. Caldecott ; for little folks to colour.
- Alternative:
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- Painting book
- Created:
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- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1885
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/hm50tz67d
- Location:
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- CTSN Eng 19 6959
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Printer:
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- Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
- Racquet Court Press
- Creator:
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- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886
- Contributor:
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- Frederick Warne and Co.
- References:
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- Masaki, T. Victorian picture books, p. 701
- Osborne Coll., p. 219 (4th series, ca. 1919)
- Binding note:
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- Pub. dark blue textured paper bds., color-printed on upper (with central vignette from The Milkmaid), with tan publisher's advertisement in a matching design on lower listing Caldecott's Picture Books and Painting Books, "First and Second Series."
- Author:
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- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886