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Publication Series: Aunt Mavor's Picture Books for Little Readers, series 2

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  • Publication Series: Aunt Mavor's Picture Books for Little Readers, series 2 Pub. Series Record # 3581
  • Note: This 13-volume series reprinted all the stories in Aunt Mavor's Nursery Tales for Good Little People (1st ed., Routledge, 1855). The British Library dates the series as starting in 1856. Relying on the company address stated in the last volume, the entire series must have been printed by 1858. It is likely that Routledge issued the entire series simultaneously (as it did other similar children's series) so we date them all as 1856. Four volumes are not in the database (December 2016) as not meeting our definitions of speculative fiction:
    • 1. Nursery Alphabet
    • 7. Babes in the Woods
    • 9. The Dog's Dinner Party
    • 12. Butterfly's Ball (One WorldCat record of the single-volume collection, OCLC 1008126517 reports three of those titles as "The Nursery Alphabet", "Children in the Wood", "Butterfly's Ball (and) Grasshopper's Feast". For all 9 chapbooks in this database, its listings match the chapbook titles below.)
    Series 1 comprised 14 volumes, of which few are interesting to us -- perhaps number 4 alone, a version of Reynard the Fox. "Aunt Mavor" is house name presumably. One WorldCat record of #6 Aladdin, OCLC 179283243 includes three Notes and a Description probably relevant to the series. One of those Notes: "Signature of Mrs. Major, Cromwell House written parallel to the spine on the front wrapper."
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Date Pub. Series # Title Author/Editor Publisher ISBN/Catalog ID Price Pages Format Type Cover Artist Verif
1856-00-00 2 Tom Thumb Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 3 Cinderella Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap Alfred Henry Forrester  
1856-00-00 4 The Three Bears Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.  
1/-?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap E. Evans Checkmark
1856-00-00 5 Beauty and the Beast Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 6 Aladdin, or, The Wonderful Lamp Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.  
-/6?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).
16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 8 Jack the Giant Killer Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 10 Puss in Boots Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 11 Hop o' My Thumb Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap  
1856-00-00 13 Little Red Riding Hood Aunt Mavor George Routledge & Co.     16
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.
chap Alfred Henry Forrester  
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