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This little pig went to market

The nursery rhyme · Cover title · At head of title: Price sixpence, or mounted on linen, one shilling · Illustrations and cover design by Walter Crane · Date of imprint, with a design date of 1869, from Spencer; Massé suggests publication date of 1869 · "Edmund Evans, engraver and printer ..." --P. [4] of cover · Consists of 4 bifolia printed on one side, chromoxylographs with letterpress, saddle stitched in col. pictorial stiff paper wrapper; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside of wrapper · citation/reference: Spencer, Isobel. Walter Crane, p. 202 · citation/reference: Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane, p. 12 · action: conserved, repaired; 2015; Georgia Southworth Conservation; pda DSI SWC grant · Spencer, Isobel. Walter Crane · Massé, G.C.E. Walter Crane · conserved, repaired; · CHMRB copy 39088007421639 had conservation treatment supported by the Smithsonian Women's Committee in 2015 · CHMRB copy has the original wrapper (earliest version?): Printed in red, green, and black on dark yellow; publisher's advertisement on back cover, reading: "Routledge's new sixpenny toy books. Beautifully printed in colours, by Messrs. Leighton Brothers, Kronheim & co., Vincent Brooks, Edmund Evans,

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