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Uncle's Farm
This is a book of 14 full page colour pictures on 7 sheets of thick card. There is no text. There are illustrations inside the front and rear covers too. The copy in the British Library dated [1921] is said to have 12 pages and gives credit for the illustrations to A[lexander] Scott Rankin (1868-1942), who drew 10 of the other pictures; the last was drawn by George Morrow. The book was reissued in 1938 in soft covers, according to a copy in the Bodleain Library.
(Updated on 11th July 2023)
First edition, thus
Bibliography code: NEL-21.8
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Series: none
Year: [1921], reissued [1938]
Format: board book
Pages: 14
Binding: printed board covers backed with cream cloth
Size: 288 x 220 mm
Cover: frontispiece from At the Farm
, signed underneath 'Nelson'
Internal illustrations: All illustrations from At the Farm (ATF). Page 6, colour drawing of children making hay with pitchforks (no safety helmets in those days!) (ATF facing p 140). Page 7, colour drawing of sheep shearing (ATF facing p 115); Page 8, colour drawing of farm workers having their meal in a field (ATF facing p 141); Page 9, colour drawing of a threshing machine (ATF facing p 84). Inside rear cover: colour drawing of farmer feeding pigs (ATF facing p 16). Rear cover: colour drawing of shepherd holding a lamb (ATF facing page 24).
The 1938 edition has endpapers, not illustrations. Front endpapers: line drawings from p 18 and p 43 of At the Farm. Rear endpapers: line drawings from p 102 and p 122 of At the Farm.
Source of illustrations: At the Farm
Cover of book (click to enlarge)
Price: not known
Printing history: original
Printed by: Printed in Great Britain at the Press of the Publishers
Notes: The copy in the Bodleian Library has an accession date of April 1921. Nelson's were quick to reuse material in another book. It may also have been published by Thomas Nelson and Sons, New York. Thanks to Geoff Morris for details about his copy of the later issue of this book.