NMLP P-025152 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Diverting History of John Gilpin (text by William Cowper)

Randolph Caldecott · George Routledge & Sons, London (colour-printed by Edmund Evans) · 1878

First-issue dating rests chiefly on the REAR WRAPPER: the publisher's advertisements there should list only titles issued up to 1878, and the small-print Edmund Evans imprint ("Racquet Court, Fleet Street") should NOT carry the "E.C." postal district, which was added only from 1883 — an "E.C." imprint marks a later printing

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-025152 for "The Diverting History of John Gilpin (text by William Cowper)" by Randolph Caldecott (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-025152, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).