Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Book Literature
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The small books once sold for pennies supply Edwin Pearson with a history of children's reading and the woodcuts that helped shape it. Published in 1890, his study gathers impressions from original blocks and follows their connections with printers, engravers and familiar nursery stories. Banbury supplies the starting point, while the discussion reaches other British towns and America. Thomas and John Bewick figure among the artists associated with the illustrations.
Alongside publishing history, Pearson reproduces examples of the literature itself. Nursery rhymes sit near The History of a Banbury Cake, in which a cake recounts being made, sold and taken to Oxford. Lists of Rusher's penny and halfpenny books show how titles, arrangements and illustrations varied. The combination offers readers interested in book history a close look at the pictures, prices and stories of early children's publishing.
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- Edwin Pearson
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- 938
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