Oxford Boxes
Biblio details and description
1] [Mrs Herbert Strang ed.] DOLLY’S PRETTY PLAY BOX (Henny-Penny Books for Little Chicks) [1933]
A cardboard box coloured blue and white 85x70x75mm., the flip top and fall-down front flap with white printed title labels, containing eight volumes of the ‘Henny-Penny’ series each uniformly in a single gathering of 48 unnumbered pages 73x60mm. [1] framed title with series title and publisher: Humphrey Milford / Oxford University Press London [2] list of 24 series titles edited by Mrs Herbert Strang / imprint: Printed 1933 in Great Britain by Mackays Ltd, Chatham [3-48 text, illus. with an unsigned line drawing on every page opening. Thicker paper wrappers the outer in variegated colours with paper title label, as below:
Bunnikin Tales (pale green); Henny-Penny and Bow-wow (mauve); H-P & Cock-a-Doodle (dark blue); H-P & Piggy-Wiggy (light blue); H-P’s Book of Trains (orange); Little Goosey Gander (pale green); Little Mousey (pale yellow);That Naughty Mouseykins (red).
[2] [Mrs. Herbert Strang ed.] MY OWN BOX OF BOOKS (The Teeny-Weeny series) [1934]
A cardboard box 70x120x80 mm. coloured pale green and light orange with a lid with two title labels on each side and a blank fall-down front, containing six volumes in the Teeny-Weeny Books series each of [80]pp. including paste-downs, 90x75mm.signed [A] – E in eights. [2-3] list of 40 Teeny-Weeny Books ed. By Mrs Herbert Strang; [4] frontis,;[5] framed title-page as 1above; [6] vignette and imprint as 1 above; [7-77] text with intermittent framed line drawings throughout [78-79] endpapers. Cloth binding over boards with paper title label to front, three vols coloured orange, three pale green.
Titles: Teenie-weenies at the Circus; T-W’s Dicky-Bird Book; T-W’s Dollies; T-W’s Fairy Stories (Twelve Dancing Princesses; The Nightingale; The Travelling Musicians; The Ugly Duckling); T-W’s Nursery Stories:(The Babes in the Wood; Rum-Pel-Stiltskin; Snow Drop); T-W’s Playtime Book.
[3] [Mrs Herbert Strang] BABY BUNTING’S BOX OF BOOKS (The Tippeny-Tuppeny series)1935
A cardboard box as [1] above but 75x112x80mm.], containing: 8 volumes in the Tippenny-Tuppenny series. [48] pp. including pastedowns, 75x65mm signed [A] –C i n twelves, [3-6 prelims as [2] above; [7-48] text] unsigned line drawing on each page opening. Coloured paper boards with paper title-label; front end papers listing 32 titles of the Tippeny-Tuppenny Books ed. Mrs Herbet Strang, rear figure drawings.
Titles included and board colour: The Tippenny-Tuppenny and Tabitha (pale yellow), The T-T Farm (mauve), T-T’s Animal Stories (red) T-T’s Fairy Stories (cerise) (The Fisherman and his Wife; The Elves and the Shoemaker; The Tom-Tit and the Bear), The T-T’s Bedtime Book (liht blue), The T-T’s Nursery Stories (dark blue) (Little Red Riding Hood; Cinderella; Sleeping Beauty), T-&’s Pets (mauve), T-T’s Picture Book
[Be it known that the following boxes drawing on the same three sets are to be found in the British Library and the Bodleian Library but an analysis of them will take more than tippeny-tuppeny’s worth of labour:]
My Little Holiday Box
Nursery Rhymes Box of Books
Our Darling’s Box of Books
Teeny-Weenie’s Gift Box
Tippeny-Tuppenie’s Gift Box
No other locations are known.
