The frog who would a wooing go
By: by Charles Bennett.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905 (printer)
Series: Routledge's shilling toy and funny books -- no. 5
Publisher: Routledge, Warne and Routledge
Published: 1857
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Frog who would a-wooing go
Work titles: Frog he would a-wooing go (Folk song)
Notes: Publication statement from cover.

Date taken from Masaki, Tomoko. A history of Victorian popular picture books, 2006.

Illustrated pages [1-8] are unnumbered, alternating between numbered pages [1]-8.

Illustrations are with signature "C. H. B." or "C. H. Bennett" [i.e. Charles Henry Bennett].

Printer's imprint set within wood-engraved outline illustration of an artist's palette on p. 8.

Issued as number 5 in the series "Routledge's Shilling Toy and Funny Books".  Cf. Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books.

With the same setting of type and wood-engraved illustrations as used in part of  "The comical story book" published in [186-] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean O 0138.

"One Shilling or On Cloth Eighteen-Pence"--Cover.

Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books, p. 467-468.

MASS copy: Bound in bright green paper-covered boards. Upper cover printed in black and red with titling and wood-engraved illustration similar to those within the text.  Lower cover printed in black with publisher's advertisements, including one listing titles in "Routledges' New Toy Books", the list including "5. The frog that would a-wooing go".  Lower cover with imprint: "Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street.".  With pastel yellow endpapers.  Lacking upper and lower free endpapers.