Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809-1873
Title:
Parables from nature / by Margaret Gatty, author of "Aunt Judy's Tales," etc.
Published / Created:
London : George Bell and Sons, York Street, Covent Garden, 1885-1886.
Physical Description:
2 v. in 1 : ill. ; 21 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4712.G132 P37 1885
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of David and Judith Ross
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
In two series. The first series, dated 1885, has subtitle: With a memoir by her daughter, Juliana Horatia Ewing. Illustrated by P.H. Calderon, W. Holman Hunt, E. Burne Jones, Otto Speckter, G.H. Thomas, John Tenniel, etc. First Series.

Second series has subtitle: Illustrated by M.E. Edwards, Lorenz Fröhlich, E. Burne Jones, G.H. Thomas, Harrison Weir, J. Wolf, etc. Second series.

Illustrations also by William Henry Millais and Edmund George Warren (series 1); William Patton Burton and Friedrich Wilhelm Keyl (series 2). Engravings by Horace Harral.

Printed by Chiswick Press, C. Whittingham and Co., Tooks Court, Chancery Lane.

Text printed in double columns.

NSTC, 2G3510

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in maroon cloth. The second series is bound before the first series. Some preliminary paging missing. Inscribed: Mary H. Shea.
Subject Terms:
Gatty, Alfred, Mrs., 1809–1873. | Natural history -- Juvenile fiction. | Allegories. | Children's stories, English. | Ross, David and Judith -- Provenance. | Shea, Mary H. -- Autograph. | George Bell and Sons -- Publisher. | Chiswick Press -- Printer. | C. Whittingham and Co. -- Printer.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1885-1886.
Contributors:
Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841–1885. | Harral, Horace, engraver. | Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833–1898, ill. | Burton, William Paton, 1828–1883, ill. | Calderon, P. H. (Philip Hermogenes), 1833–1898, ill. | Edwards, Mary Ellen, 1838–1934. | Frølich, Lorenz, 1820–1908, ill. | Hunt, William Holman, 1827–1910, ill. | Keyl, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1823–1871, ill. | Millais, William Henry, 1828–1899, ill. | Speckter, Otto, 1807–1871, ill. | Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820–1914, ill. | Thomas, George Housman, 1824–1868, ill. | Warren, Edmund George, d. 1909, ill. | Weir, Harrison, 1824–1906, ill. | Wolf, Joseph, 1820–1899, ill.