Aunt Mavor's present for a good little girl : comprising Victoria alphabet, The old Cornish woman, The cat's tea party, Little Polly's doll's house, Mother Bunch's evening party, Uncle Hugh's country house : with seventy-four coloured illustrations.
Published / Created:
London : George Routledge & Co., Farringdon Street ; New York : 18 Beekman Street, 1856
Physical Description:
[1], 7, [1], 8, 8, 7, [1], 8, 7, [1] leaves : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and ManuscriptsPE1155 .A96 1856+ OversizeYale Center for British Art, Gift of Ellen and Arthur Liman, Yale JD 1957
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
The Cornish Woman's caption title is: The Old Woman who came all the way from Cornwall to see the Great Exhibition.Uncle Hugh shows the children many wonders, including an India rubber diving suit.The story "Miss Pusseycat's tea party" includes (page 7) a depiction of "the four Masters Tortoiseshell offered to give a song like the four Ethiopian Serenaders." The Ethiopian Serenaders were a popular blackface minstrel troupe in the 1840s.BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original blue blind-stamped cloth. Autograph: Wm. S. Fields, 53 St. Marks Place, New York.
Subject Terms:
Ethiopian Serenaders. | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) | English language -- Alphabet -- Juvenile poetry. | Children's stories. | Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) -- Juvenile poetry. | Cats -- Juvenile fiction. | Dollhouses -- Juvenile fiction. | Blackface entertainers. | Minstrel music. | Fields, Wm. S. -- Autograph. | Liman, Ellen and Arthur -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1856.
Contributors:
G. Routledge & Co., publisher. | Collection of Ellen and Arthur Liman (Yale Center for British Art).