Betham-Edwards, Matilda, 1836-1919, Little bird red and little bird blue , MDCCCLXI [1861]
- Title(s):
Little bird red and little bird blue : a tale of the woods / by M. Betham Edwards ; illustrated by T. R. Macquoid.
- Additional Title(s):
Little bird red
- Published/Created:
- London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., MDCCCLXI [1861]
- Physical Description:
- 47, [1] p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsPR4109.B14 L58 1861Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon FundAccessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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- Copyright Information
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/4234320
- Classification:
- Articles & Chapters
- Notes:
- Drama in verse.
"The story of "Little bird red and little bird blue" is adapted, with some alterations, from the German of an unknown author ..."--T.p. verso.
Spine title: Little bird red.
"London: Printed and engraved by Edmund Evans, Raquet Court."--P. [48]
Title page engraved.
Text appears within a variety of wood-engraved floral fram-borders. Many include color wood engravings. Protective unnumbered blank pages between each page. Wood engraved frontispiece signed by E. Evans and T. Macquoid.
Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, p. 621
NSTC, 2E5551
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's blind- and gilt-stamped purple cloth, with gilt edges. Binder's ticket: Bound by Bone & Son, 76, Fleet St., London. Inscribed: Helen Florence Dames with her grandmama's love Christmas 1861. Leaf bearing ms notes on the blue bird within a floral border in pen and brown ink tipped in immediately following text. - Subject Terms:
- Bone & Son -- Binder.Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 -- Printer.Sampson Low, Son & Co. -- Publisher.
- Form/Genre:
- Ink drawings -- 1861.
Botanical illustrations -- 1861. l
Chromoxylographs -- 1861.
Wood engravings -- 1861. - Export:
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