An elegy on the death of a mad dog
- Title
- An elegy on the death of a mad dog / written by Dr. Goldsmith ; pictured by R. Caldecott ; sung by Master Bill Primrose.
- Published by
- [London] : George Routledge and Sons, [1879]
- Author
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Status Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328. Please for assistance. | FormatText | AccessRestricted use | Call numberArents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328 |
Status Available by appointment at Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328. | FormatText | AccessRestricted use | Call number*KH+ 1879 Caldecott 16-615 | Item locationSchwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional authors
- Description
- 30, [2] p. : ill. (some col.); 23 cm.
- Series statement
- One of R. Caldecott's picture books
- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.
- Alternative title
- Mad dog
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Wood engravings – Color – Great Britain – 19th century.
- Juvenile literature – Great Britain – London – 1879.
- Call number
- Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25
- Note
- Imprint from cover.
- Third in Caldecott's shilling series of 16 picture books published 1878-1885. For date of publication, cf. English children's books, 1600 to 1900 / by Percy Muir. 1954. p. 199-200. Cf. also Hardie, M. English coloured books, p. 281-282. Osborne Coll. gives date as 1880.
- "Edmund Evans, engraver and printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street"--Back cover.
- The ill. are wood engravings by Evans after Caldecott, including 9 full-page printed in color (1 on front cover).
- Issued in illustrated yellow paper covers, counted in collation, with first and last leaf pasted to inside of covers.
- Arents copy has publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's shilling toy books," nos. 1-79, with gaps (Walter Crane's titles listed separately), listing "R. Caldecott's picture books" (The house that Jack built, John Gilpin, Elegy on a mad dog, and The babes in the wood), unnumbered, at end.
- Indexed in (note)
- Osborne Coll.
- Author
- Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774.
- Title
- An elegy on the death of a mad dog / written by Dr. Goldsmith ; pictured by R. Caldecott ; sung by Master Bill Primrose.
- Imprint
- [London] : George Routledge and Sons, [1879]
- Series
- One of R. Caldecott's picture books
- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886. Picture books.
- Indexed in:
- Osborne Coll. I, p. 64
- Local note
- Arents copy: Paper covers pasted on inverted.
- Arents copy in case with spine title: Picture books / Caldecott.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Caldecott, Randolph, 1846-1886, illustrator
- Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver
- George Routledge and Sons, publisher
- Children's Room Collection.
- Cover title
- Mad dog
- LCCN
- 15002186
- Research call number
- Arents BIP (Caldecott, R. Picture 1878) 99-25
- *KH+ 1879 Caldecott 16-615