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Title: Banbury Chap Books
And Nursery Toy Book Literature

Author: Edwin Pearson

Release Date: August 28, 2006 [EBook #19132]

Language: English

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[Illustrations: frontis_1 - frontis_5

_The "White Lion," Banbury, early John Bewick._

_Early cuts used to illustrate "Tommy Two Shoes." York and Hull
editions._

_Early cut from "A New Year's Gift."_

_"Jack and the Giants," early York edition._]

_BANBURY CHAP BOOKS_

and

NURSERY TOY BOOK LITERATURE

[of the XVIII. and Early XIX. Centuries]

with
Impressions from Several Hundred
ORIGINAL WOOD-CUT BLOCKS,

By T. & J. Bewick, Blake, Cruikshank, Craig, Lee,
Austin, and Others.

Illustrating Favourite Nursery Classics,
with their Antiquarian, Historical, Literary
and Artistic Associations:

FAITHFULLY GLEANED FROM THE ORIGINAL WORKS
IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, THE BRITISH
AND SOUTH KENSINGTON MUSEUMS, &c.

With very much that is Interesting and Valuable
appertaining to the early Typography
and Topography of Children's Boo