Four and twenty toilers / pictures by F.D. Bedford ; verses by E.V. Lucas, joint authors of 'The Book of Shops'.
RA Collection: Book
Record number
09/2069
Author
Variant Title
Four & twenty toilers
4 and 20 toilers [Half title]
4 & 20 toilers
4 and 20 toilers [Half title]
4 & 20 toilers
Imprint
London: Grant Richards, 9 Henrietta St., Covent Garden, WC., [1900]
Physical Description
103, [5] pages : 24 colour plates, illustrations ; 24 x 32 cm (landscape folio).
General Note
The printer and engraver are named on page [106]. `London, Engraved & Printed at the Racquet Court Press by Edmund Evans’
The book carries no publication date. Date of publication suggested by the Bodleian Library.
Publisher's advertisements on page opposite title page
Twenty-two colour relief-printed full-page illustrations on recto of each leaf, verso on verso.
Illustrated half-title, t.p., and "Contents" page.
Contents
1. Shipbuilder. -- 2. Cobbler. -- 3. Gardener. -- 4. Miller. -- 5. Engine-driver. -- 6. Builder. -- 7. Vet. -- 8. Knife-grinder. -- 9. Farmer. -- 10. Clockwinder. -- 11. Woodman. -- 12. Carpenter. -- 13. Gamekeeper. -- 14. Bird-stuffer. -- 15. The dame. -- 16. Stevedore. -- 17. Bee-farmer. -- 18. Ostler. -- 19. Dairyman. -- 20. Chimneysweep. -- 21. Ploughman. -- 22. Blacksmith. -- 23. Park-keeper. -- 24. The old bus horse.
Binding Note
Illustrated paper covered boards with brown cloth tape to spine. Lettered in gilt on spine: `Four and twenty toilers'
Subject
Illustrated books
Trades
Colour printed wood-engravings
Picture books
Chromoxylography
Trades
Colour printed wood-engravings
Picture books
Chromoxylography
