Main entry:

Newcombe, S. Prout (Samuel Prout)

Title & Author:

Little Henry's holiday at the Great Exhibition / by the editor of "Pleasant pages."

Publication:

London : Houlston & Stoneman, [1851] (printed by Petter, Duff, and Co. Playhouse Yard, Blackfriars)

Description:

168, [12] pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm

Notes:
Author's name from Osborne and NUC pre-1956 cited below.
Date from Osborne cited below, and internal evidence.
Edition binding; bound in blue ribbed-morocco grain cloth, panel stamped in blind on both boards, with title in gold letters on both boards; spine blocked in gold; lilac endpapers.
UkLNAL
Library's copy donated by Charles Wentworth Dilke.
Library's copy with ownership inscription on t.p.: C Wentworth Dilke.
One illustration signed W. Dickes, i.e., William Dickes.
Price: 2s 6d.
Some illustrations siged E. Whimper.
T.p. and frontispiece included in plate count.
Two plates included in pagination, one attached to stub of p. [75-76].
With [12] p. of publisher's advertisements at back.
With monochrome lithographed t.p. and frontispiece and two further lithographed plates of views of the Crystal Palace and exhibits.
With numerous wood-engraved illustrations throughout text.
Dilke, p. 65
NUC pre-1956, 417:53
Osborne Coll., I,188
English.

Summary:

Childrens' book written as a series of fictional dialogues between children and adults describing the Great Exhibition of 1851.

Resources:
Available to subscribers only as part of the World's Fairs collection
Digitial facsimile

Subject:

Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England)
Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) Juvenile literature.
Great Exhibition
Didactic fiction.
Roman didactique.

Form/genre:

Ribbed morocco grain cloth bindings England 1851.
Blind-blocked bindings (gathered matter components.
Edition bindings.
Gold-blocked bindings.
Monochrome lithographs.
Ownership inscriptions.
Wood engravings.
children's books.
dialogues.
Dialogues (Literature)
Juvenile works
Wood engravings Specimens Great Britain 1851.
Gold blocked bindings Specimens Great Britain 1851.
Embossed stamps Specimens Great Britain 1851.
Dialogues (Littérature)

Added entries:

Dickes, William, 1815-1892.
Dilke, Charles Wentworth, Sir, 1810-1869, donor.
Whymper, Elijah, active 1848-1863.
Houlston and Stoneman, publisher.
Petter, Duff, and Co., printer.
England, London.

Holdings:

Location: Library main y 33011
Call No.: T690 (ID:88-B4637)
Status: Available