- The history of a apple pie.
- Created:
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- 1858-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1858
- Collections:
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- Cotsen Children's Library
- Collections Donated to Princeton University Library
- Lloyd E. Cotsen
- ABC Books
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/xk81jp720
- Title:
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- The history of a apple pie.
- Language:
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- English
- Call number:
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- Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 4402
- Extent:
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- [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
- Format:
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- Book
- Description:
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- Date and series no. from Masaki.
- Title, publisher, and series from upper wrapper, which serves as t.p.
- "Aunt Mavor's Toy Books; Price Sixpence Each"--At head of title.
- 4 bifolia, printed on one side only; first and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
- Personified letters all interact with the A apple pie: "B bit it," "C cut it," etc.; a "crudely employed [but] marvelously funny and ideosyncratatic" design (Masaki, II, p. 120).
- Illustrations: 4 leaves each with 5-8 large red personified alphabet letters on a dark blue background; 1 double-leaf center-fold procession of all the personified letters arrayed around the apple pie; 1 double-leaf alphabet with red capitals and blue text pasted down to wrappers.
- Publisher:
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- London : Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [1858] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street)
- Subject:
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- English language—Alphabet—Juvenile literature
- English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works
- Alphabet books
- Printed wrappers (Binding)—19th century
- Publishers' advertisements—1858
- Printer:
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- Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Contributors:
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- Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
- Alternative:
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- A apple pie
- References:
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- Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 409 (41a)
- Binding note:
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- Pub. blue pictorial wrappers, with color-printed pictorial design on upper in black and red and publisher's advertisements for various Routledge series on lower wrapper.
- Location:
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- Special Collections Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 4402
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