Peter Parley's annual for 1864 : a Christmas and New Year's present for young people
RA Collection: Book
Record number
10/1161
Imprint
London: William Kent & Co., 1864
Physical Description
viii, 303, [25] pages, [8] leaves of plates : illustrations, 7 colour plates (wood engravings) ; 19 cm.
General Note
Added colour wood-engraved title-page.
Colour wood-engraved plates are with signature imprint: "Drawn by" Doyle, Gilbert, George Cruikshank, Birket Foster or Kenny Meadows. One plate is signed as engraved by T. Williams after George Cruikshank.
Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are unsigned. Some are signed as engraved by Whymper [i.e.J. W. Whymper?], M. U. Sears, "[AO?]", W. Measom, T. Williams, George Measom, Orrin Smith, E. Evans and Dalziel. Illustrators include John Gilbert, J. Portch [i.e. Julian Portch?], "MC", Brughot, Janet Lange, G. F. Sargent, "HW" and B. Foster.
Part of a series published under various imprints from 1840-1892 that consisted of bound volumes of the monthly numbers of "Peter Parley's Magazine", which began publication in 1839 under the imprint of Darton and Clark. William Martin edited several numbers of the "Magazine".
Contents
The New Year -- Holiday children -- A word for the Waits -- Tales of the Crusades -- Beavers and beaver-meadows in North America -- A boy's adventures in the gold fields -- Morris-dancing -- Something about ghosts, and how to manufacture them -- A flesh-and-blood ghost story; or, the Ghost of the "Grampus" -- Bird study of a young ornithologist -- Fairy revels -- A sea-side quandary of the mid-summer holidays -- Something about antelopes -- Something about the Poles -- Little Gordie -- Choosing professions -- The faithful negro -- The scapegrace -- Discovery of the sources of the Nile -- A word about William Shakespeare -- Desperate fight between a boa-constrictor and a crocodile -- A spirt amoung the Indians -- A story of three dogs -- Bears and bear-hunting -- Pig-sticking; a lion and tiger fight, and other Eastern sports -- Wild sports of the western waters -- Animals in armour -- Ministering royalty; or, the greenwood shrift -- The talisman of Oromanes -- Something about the hippopotamus and other gigantics -- The lost child -- Covetousness reproved -- Boy hardihood and endurance.
Binding Note
Publishers case binding of red ribbed morocco grain cloth over boards. Panel stamp blocked in blind on both covers and in gold on upper cover. With central roundel on upper cover featuring a wedding ceremony around which is lettered in gilt: `The marriage of the Prince of Wales March 10th 1863'
Subject
Illustrated periodicals
Children's stories
Colour printed wood-engraving
Children's literature -- Periodicals
Boys -- Periodicals
Children's stories
Colour printed wood-engraving
Children's literature -- Periodicals
Boys -- Periodicals
Contributors
Richard Doyle, draughtsman
George Cruikshank, draughtsman
Kenny Meadows, draughtsman
Sir John Gilbert RA, draughtsman
Myles Birket Foster, draughtsman
William Martin, editor
William Kent and Company (London), publisher
George Cruikshank, draughtsman
Kenny Meadows, draughtsman
Sir John Gilbert RA, draughtsman
Myles Birket Foster, draughtsman
William Martin, editor
William Kent and Company (London), publisher
