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From Evans’s Cock Robin.

Frontispiece to Farthing Cinderella.

Tobacco Paper Cut and Tavern Sign.

Very Early Ballad, D——l cut, etc.

John Evans, 42, Long Lane, West Smithfield, circa 1791, brought out some singular little farthing children’s books, printed on coarse sugar paper, also ballads, single-sheet songs, and “patters.” One, “The tragical death of an Apple Pye, cut in pieces and eat, by twenty-five gentlemen, with whom all little people ought to be very well acquainted.”

J. Drewey, Irongate, Derby, brought out some entertaining fables, in which the following woodcuts were used again.

Blocks used in Red Riding Hood.

Blocks used in “Jack and the Giants” and “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s son,” etc. From John White’s stock, at York.

Cuts used for “Tom, Tom, the Piper’s Son,” etc.