Author: Goldsmith,Oliver (Caldecott Picture Book)
Title: AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A MAD DOG. Written By Dr Goldsmith Pictured By R. Caldecott Sung By Master Bill Primrose
Description: London, George Routledge and Sons 1890 approx) Color printed plates (8) by Caldecott, printed Edmund Evans +sepia line illustrations to every other page. . Small quarto Green glazed pictorial card covers (front cover with corner creases/rear cover with one small chip and 2 short tears without loss] 30pp. *These Caldecott books were first published by Routledge and this is an early printing as the books came out in twos with this title not in the first two [House Jack Built & John Gilpin] with this copy only Elegy of Mad Dog and Babes in the Woods added. Later Warne took over publishing these [after 1900] but their colours are less clear and bright.

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