• The history of a apple pie.

Created:
  • 1858-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1858
Collections:
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/xk81jp720
Title:
  • The history of a apple pie.
Language:
  • English
Call number:
  • Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 4402
Extent:
  • [8] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Format:
  • Book
Description:
  • 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:
  • London : Routledge, Warne, & Routledge, [1858] ([London] : Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet-court, Fleet-street)
Subject:
  • English language—Alphabet—Juvenile literature
  • English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works
  • Alphabet books
  • Printed wrappers (Binding)—19th century
  • Publishers' advertisements—1858
Printer:
  • Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
Range label:
  • Logical
Contributors:
  • Routledge, Warne, & Routledge
Alternative:
  • A apple pie
References:
  • Masaki, T. Victorian popular picture bks., I, p. 409 (41a)
Binding note:
  • 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:
  • Special Collections Pams / Eng 19 / Box 071 4402
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