Peter Parley's annual
Subtitle: a Christmas and New Year's present for young people
By: edited by William Martin ...
Contributors: Martin, William, 1801-1867.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Gilks, Thomas.; Cooper, James Davis, 1823-1904.; Dickes, William, 1815-1892.; Bolton, Thomas, fl. 1851-1893.; Landells, Ebenezer, 1808-1860.; Gray, Charles, engraver, d. 1847.; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Gilbert, John, Sir, 1817-1897.; Keene, Charles, 1823-1891.; Macquoid, Thomas Robert, 1820-1912.; Goodrich, Samuel G. 1793-1860.; Dalziel Brothers.; Kerby & Son.
Publisher: Darton and Co.
Published: 1862
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
Subjects: Gift books -- Specimens.; Children's literature -- Periodicals.; Boys -- Periodicals.
Genres: Specimens.; Periodicals.
Other titles: Peter Parley's 1862 annual; Peter Parley's annual for 1862; Peter Parley's magazine
Notes: Added colour wood-engraved illustrated t.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Some wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed as engraved by E. Evans, T. Gilks, J. Cooper, Dalziel, W. Dickes, "J. & A. W.", T. Bolton and Landells & Gray.  Illustrators include B. Foster, John Gilbert, C. Keene, "F. J. S." and "H. W.".

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated initials.  A few are with signature: "TM" [i.e. Thomas Macquoid].  Some of these also include signature: "SS".

General and publishers' advertisements on p. [1-2], [1]-31 and [1-3] at end (some folded).

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".  In the early years the "Annual" was published with the imprint of its distributors, Simpkin, Marshall and Co.  Cf. Darton, F. J. Harvey.  Children's books in England, 1982.

Believed to be the earliest boy's annual published in Britain.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972.

The American author S. C. Goodrich claimed exclusive rights to the pseudonym "Peter Parley" and quarreled with its use by both British and American publishers for works of which he denies authorship and for bogus re-workings of his writings under the Parley name.  He also objected to the use of the pseudonym for this Annual, the authorship of which he bears no responsibility.  Cf. Goodrich, S. G. Recollections of a lifetime, 1967.

Faxon, F. W. Literary annuals, p. 108.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 406.

Cf. Darton, F. J. Harvey.  Children's books in England, p. 221-228.

McLean, Ruari.  Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 40, 42, 47-48, 58, 62, 192.

Goodrich, S. G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, p. 296.

MASS copy: Bound in red horizontal wave-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  Upper cover blocked in gold and lower cover in blind with title and elaborate decorative border with two small illustrated vignettes.  Design includes signature: "MAC".  With light yellow endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "Kerby & Son,  190, Oxford Street.".
Table of contents: value: Christmas all the world round; value: New Year's gifts; value: Christmas vagaries, plays, pageants, mysteries, and moralities, in the olden time; value: The water frolic; or How I spent my Easter holidays; value: Story of a school fag; value: Dog tales; value: Monkey stories; value: Boyish exploits of Drake; value: Football play; and how th boys play it at Derby; value: South African lion adventures; value: An early exploit of the youthful Nelson; value: Hippopotamuses or hippopotami; value: Health and sickness; value: Deer-hunting in North America; value: Coming home from the fair; value: Iceland and the Icelanders; value: Coming home from the Christmas party; value: Story of Italian liberty, and Garibaldi; value: Story of the boy volunteer; value: The good pastor; or the fight prevented; value: The young Napoleon; value: The heir to the throne or; A Good king in embryo; value: Old Westminster school; value: My tame hawk; value: The brother and sister; value: A pig tale; value: Nutting on a holiday; value: An extraordinary bear hunt; value: The little haymakers.