Yale Center for British Art

Title:

Babes in the wood.

Alternate Title(s):

Children in the wood (Ballad)

Published / Created:

London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1861.

Physical Description:

[10] leaves : ill. ; 19 cm.

Holdings:

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR2199 C5 1861
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Classification:

Books

Notes:

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in blind- and gold-stamped in red publisher's cloth.

In verse.

Printed by W. Dickes, 5, Old Fish St., Doctors Commons.

Illustrations after Louisa Ann Waterford.

This edition was previously printed by Cundall in 1849 with chromolithography on wood by Dickes as part of the series "Illustrated Present Books" issued by Sampson Low. See McLean.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design p. 146

Subject Terms:

Dickes, W. -- Printer. | Sampson Low, Son & Co. -- Publisher. | Children's stories. | Orphans -- Juvenile literature.

Form/Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1861. | Chromoxylographs -- 1861.

Contributors:

Waterford, Louisa Ann, Marchioness, 1818–1891, ill.