Margaret Wells' Picture Book
This was one of the last engraver's picture books that Carr published. It is not listed in his History of the QTP (1987). Margaret Bruce Wells (1909-1998) studied with the engraver Leon Underwood.
The colour of the covers of these two books are slightly different although the scans shown below don't seem to be much different. It may be that one has faded and that there is only one edition.
According to Jisc Library Hub there is a copy in the Royal Academy of Arts, but it's not listed in the RA catalogue.
(Last updated on 28/5/2021)
SBE-WEL1: First edition
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1988?
ISBN: None
Size: 130 x 94 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: one
Binding: white glossy printed card covers
Paper: white
Arranged by: Heulwen Williams
Cover artist: Margaret Wells
Internal illustrations: 19 engravings
Number in series: 95
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: not stated
Content: Short biography; (striped squirrel); The childhood of a tree; The mouth of the stream; (frog); (trout); Six geese a-laying; O! the rising of the sun...; Birds build nests; Seven swans a-swimming; Ascent on skis; How long, how long, in infinte pursuit; A partridge in a pear tree; Two turtle doves; Morning flight; Tiger-lily; Four colley birds; (gazelles); (women dancing around a Christmas tree); Au revoir.
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover
Notes: This is one of seven titles numbered 95. The other six are: Belloc, Stevenson, Byron, The Young Women's Old Testament, Margaret Wells, and the Dictionary of English Cricketers volume 2
Publisher: J.L. Carr Publisher, 27 Mill Dale Road, Kettering
Year: 1988?
ISBN: None
Size: 130 x 94 mm
Pages: 16 pp
Staples: one
Binding: white glossy printed card covers
Paper: white
Arranged by: Heulwen Williams
Cover artist: Margaret Wells
Internal illustrations: 19 engravings
Number in series: 95
Colophon: none
Telephone number: none
Printing history: none stated
Number of other titles listed: none
Printed by: not stated
Content: Short biography; (striped squirrel); The childhood of a tree; The mouth of the stream; (frog); (trout); Six geese a-laying; O! the rising of the sun...; Birds build nests; Seven swans a-swimming; Ascent on skis; How long, how long, in infinte pursuit; A partridge in a pear tree; Two turtle doves; Morning flight; Tiger-lily; Four colley birds; (gazelles); (women dancing around a Christmas tree); Au revoir.
Rear and front covers
Inside rear cover
Notes: This is assumed to be the second impression because it has sticker over the address for the Quince Tree Press telephone number, so it was sold after Carr's death in 1994.