R Caldecott's Picture Book containing The Diverting History of John Gilpin; The House that Jack Built; The Babes in the Wood and The Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog

Published by George Routledge and Sons, 1879

About this Item

*** Picture BOOK in good/very good tight and unmarked condition. Undated, assumed to be 1879/80. All edges red, so probably first edition. Pictorial Boards with title in black on spine. Boards a litttle grubby. No ownership or other markings. Unpaginated about 80 pages of full colour plates and line drawings. Front endpapers are toned, otherwise a good clean copy. one text page has a traingular piece about 3cm torn out - doesn't affect text, and another page has a marginal tear, about 3cm. Book measures 23x21cm. Seller Inventory # 007638

Bibliographic Details

Title: R Caldecott's Picture Book containing The ...

Publisher: George Routledge and Sons

Publication Date: 1879

Binding: Hardcover

Illustrator: R Caldecott (engraved by E Evans)

Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition