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    Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature
    Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature
    Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature
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    Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature

    By Edwin Pearson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Banbury Chap Books And Nursery Toy Book Literature - Edwin Pearson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Banbury Chap Books, by Edwin Pearson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

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      Title: Banbury Chap Books

      And Nursery Toy Book Literature

      Author: Edwin Pearson

      Release Date: December 14, 2006 [EBook #19132]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BANBURY CHAP BOOKS ***

      Produced by Louise Hope, Malcolm Farmer and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net

      This e-text reproduces the design and layout of the printed book as exactly as possible. Each illustrations is individually linked to a larger version.

      A few typographical errors, mostly involving punctuation, have been corrected. They are marked in the text with mouse-hover popups

      . Misspellings were generally left uncorrected; they are marked in the same way. The name Branston was randomly spelled with or without a final e.

      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 Books relating

      to Great Britain and America.

      including

      Jack the Giant Killer, Cock Robin, Tom Thumb,

      Whittington, Goody Two Shoes, Philip Quarll, Tommy

      Trip, York and Banbury Cries, Children in the Wood,

      Dame Trot, Horn Books, Battledores, Primers, etc.

      By EDWIN PEARSON.

      LONDON:

      Arthur Reader, 1, Orange Street, Bloomsbury, W.C. 1890.

      Only 50 copies Large Paper,

      500   „   Small.

      INTRODUCTION.

      anbury Cakes, and Banbury Cross, with its favourite juvenile associations, with the Lady with bells on her toes, having music wherever she goes, are indissolubly connected with the early years not only of ourselves but many prior generations. In fact, the Ancient Cross has been rebuilt since the days, when in Drunken Barnaby’s Journal, we are made familiar with the puritan who hanged his cat on a Monday for killing of a mouse on a Sunday. The quaint old town and its people are rapidly modernizing; but they cling to the old traditions. Both in pictorial and legendary lore we have some Banburies of another kind altogether, viz., Banbury Blocks, or in plain English, Engraved Woodcut Blocks, associated with the Local Chap Books, Toy Books, and other Histories, for which this quaint old Oxfordshire town is celebrated. The faithful description of the Blocks illustrating this volume has led to numerous descriptive digressions, apparently irrelevant to the subject; it was found however that in tracing out the former history and use of some of the Bewick and other cuts contained in this volume, that the Literary, Artistic, Historical, Topographical, Typographical, and Antiquarian Reminiscences connected with the early Printing and Engraving of Banbury involved that of many other important towns and counties of Great Britain, and also America. A provincial publisher about the beginning of the present century would reflect more or less the modus operandi of each of his contemporaries in abridging or reproducing verbatim the immortal little chap books issued from the press of John Newbury’s Toy Book Manufactory," at the Bible and Sun (a sign lately restored), 65, Saint Paul’s Church Yard, near the Bar.

      This again leads to the subject as to who wrote these clever little tomes. In my Angler’s Garland, printed at the Dryden Press, 1870 and 1871, I fully announced my intention of issuing a reprint of the first edition of Goody Two Shoes, but the intended volume was published by the firm at the corner, Griffith, Farren, Okenden, and Welsh, now in the direct line of business descent from worthy and industrious John Newbery: Carman, Harris, Grant and Griffith. Mr. Charles Welsh of the present firm has taken a warm interest in the Antiquarian and Historical Associations of the Newbery firm. The premises have been lately rebuilt, the Sign and Emblems adopted by Newbery restored, and C. Welsh has reprinted Goody Two Shoes in facsimile, since which there has been added to it a Standard edition of Goldsmith’s Works, edited by Mr. Gibbs. I had the pleasure of making many researches respecting the old London publisher (Goldsmith’s friend), John Newbery, respecting his Lilliputian Classics, and I have been enabled to introduce several of the Quarto early editions to the firm, and have had great pleasure in writing and placing on record numerous facts and data, since utilized in the very interesting Life of John Newbery, a last century bookseller. The connection of Oliver Goldsmith’s name is indissolubly associated with the juvenile classics industriously issued by Newbery. Dr. Johnson himself edited and prefaced several children’s books which I have seen in the Jupp and Hugo Collections. The weary hours of adversity, through which Goldie passed at Green Arbour Court, top of Break Neck Steps and Turn Again Lane—I remember them all well, and the Fleet prison walls too, when I was a boy—and in refuge at Canonbury Tower, near the village of Islington, these are the places where Goldsmith wrote for children. Sir Joshua Reynolds tells how, when he called on the poet at Green Arbour Court, he

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