Buy this book on-line ANONYMOUS HAND-COLOURED CHAPBOOK : The Comic Adventures of Old Dame Trot, And Her Cat. Correctly Printed From the Original in the Hubbardonian LibraryNo date (c.1824)
John Harris. London. No date, (circa 1824). Hand-sewn 12mo (17.5 x 11cm) Chapbook, with faded original printed purple card boards, very worn and rubbed, lacking small portions to spine. 17 pages - printed and illustrated and numbered to one side of each leaf with the reverse of every page being blank. Hand-coloured frontis. (Amusingly entitled "Portrait of Dame Trot. From an Original Painting.") Hand-coloured vignette of cat to title page, 16 hand-coloured half page engravings. The colours are as bright as when first done approximately 200 years ago. Contents are browned and foxed, especially to endpapers and margins. This volume is an early reprint of the improved and enlarged 1819/1820 edition, of the original story with b/w illustrations, thought to have first appeared in 1803 but the earliest surviving editions are from 1806. Apart from the larger, very attractively coloured illustrations, the text is wittier and does not resemble the Old Mother Hubbard story so obviously as that in the earlier versions. (See Oxford Companion to Children's Literatue.) Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of ANONYMOUS HAND-COLOURED CHAPBOOK : The Comic Adventures of Old Dame Trot, And Her Cat. Correctly Printed From the Original in the Hubbardonian Library. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres d'occasion, libri antichi, rare books, livres anciens and out of print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |