Noah's Ark alphabet
By: by Walter Crane.
Contributors: Evans, 1826-1905.; Aldrich Collection (Brown University)
Series: Routledge's new sixpenny toy books -- 100
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons; engraved and printed by Edmund Evans
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Alphabets -- Juvenile literature; Animals -- Juvenile literature
Notes: Cover title.

Illustrations and cover design by Walter Crane.

Dated 1872, from Cambridge Univ. Lib. accession date, in Spencer, Isobel  Walter Crane (London, 1975), p. 202, agreeing with Massé; the nature of the possibly earliest wrapper seems, however, to indicate a likelier date of 1871.

Consists of 4bifolia 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.

Wrapper (earliest version?): Printed in red, green, and black ondark yellow; publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's new sixpenny toy books. Beautifully printed ... Dalziel Brothers.", nos. 37-98 (with gaps) in a single list, i.e. not including this title; without the imprint of Edmund Evans at foot as in all (?) other early Crane toy book wrappers of this period; quotation from The Standard at head dated Dec. 23, 1870.