| Item Description: | 'The Osborne collection of early children's books', Toronto, 1975, p.39. - English Short Title Catalog, T96817. - Not ESTC. Imprint is false; printed by Edwin Pearson from the original blocks by Thomas Bewick at about the same time as his 1867 edition of: 'A pretty book of pictures'. For a discussion of a similar false imprint relating to Bewick's original woodblocks, see: Brian Alderson 'A pretty piratical book of pictures', Bodleian Library Record, 16 (1998), 341-350. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - Twenty-nine woodcuts, mostly by Thomas Bewick, with a letterpress titlepage |
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