Description: PRINTS BOOKS PHOTOGRAPHS MANUSCRIPTS CURIOSITIES - HAND-COLOURED WOODCUTS -CHAPBOOK.The gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog. Original children's chapbook. Lacks title page, so publihser and place uncertain. The label on the front wrap suggests 1823 as the publishing date. In later marbled wraps, with blue papered front and rear wraps bound inside. Bookbinder's green label on inside of front wrap - 'J Jackson. Bookbinder. 24 Villiers Street, Strand [London].' Lacks title page and prelims. Full-page hand-coloured woodcut frontispiece, and a further 14 hand-coloured woodcuts, on pairs of facing pages (versos and rectos blank).Fair condition. One page torn and defective at foot, with loss of lettering but woodcut unaffected. Light age-toning to pages. Occasional spotting and handling marks. Please ask if you require a more detailed condition report, or view gallery images closely.An early edition of this scarce children's chapbook, with some attractive hand-coloured woodcut engravings. Incomplete (lacks title page and prelims, and one page torn) but rare and sought after in any condition.We can date this edition roughly from the binder's label. Jackson worked from Villiers Street from 1796-1828. key words:
Price: 220 GBP
Location: Ascot
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Binding: Paperback
Place of Publication: London
Non-Fiction Subject: Children's & Young Adults
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Short Stories & Anthologies
Original/Reproduction: Original
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Original/Facsimile: Original
