Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Newman, William
Title:
The history of a pound of sugar : rhymes and pictures.
Published / Created:
London : Griffith & Farran, successors to J. Newbery, St. Paul's Ch. Yd, 1861.
Physical Description:
12 leaves : color illustrations ; 15 x 20 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
TP348.2 .N49 1861
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Pictorial title page, depicting children looking at magic lantern projection of sugar cane plant, signed by author-illustrator WN (William Newman)--and dated in illustration: 1861.

Hand-colored wood-engraved title page and illustrations.

Printed on one side of leaf only.

Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, page 54

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary green wrappers.

The book depicts the production of sugar cane in the British West Indies, with text in verse. With undertones of slavery, Black laborers are watched by a white "Planter [who] walks around With eagle glance and all controls."
Subject Terms:
Sugar -- Juvenile poetry. | Sugar -- Manufacture and refining -- Juvenile poetry. | Black people -- West Indies, British. | Magic lanterns.
Form/Genre:
Children's books -- England -- 1861. | Poems -- England -- 1861. | Wood engravings -- Hand-colored -- 1861.
Contributors:
Griffith and Farran, publisher.