Mounted picture toy book : comprising, Nursery rhyme alphabet, Nursery numbers, The tiny tea party, The book of trades ; with thirty-two pages of illustrations, printed in colours.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Frederick Warne & Co. ; New York : Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [between 1872 and 1878]
Description
[2], [2], 8, [1], [2], 8, [1], [2], 8, [1] leaves ; col. ill. (chromolithographs) ; 25 cm.

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    Subject(s)
    Illustrator
    Binder
    Publisher
    Library of Congress genre(s)
    Rare books genre
    Series
    Warne's mounted picture toy books
    Notes
    • Dated from years Scribner, Welford & Armstrong published under that imprint.
    • Mounted on linen.
    • Printed on one side only.
    • 4 titles, bound together in this ed. with collective t.p. and individual half-titles; each also issued separately as part of Warne's Excelsior Toy Book series.
    • Each title with text on second and last leaves with 8 leaves of chromolithographs in between.
    • Nursery Rhyme Alphabet is not the same as Ward, Lock, and Tyler's "Nursery Rhymes Alphabet" (cf. Cotsen 28712).
    • Some plates in Book of Trades signed with stylized "MB" (i.e. Barstow?), and plates in Tiny Tea Party signed "WLG" or WG" (?).
    • Cotsen copy: W. (i.e. William) Greening, binder, 183 Fleet Street"--Edition binder's ticket on rear pastedown.
    Binding note
    Pub. green bds., black- and gilt-stamped on upper cover with title and pictorial design, gilt-stamped on spine with title, and blind-stamped on lower cover with decorative Warne monogram; all edges gilt; pale yellow endpapers.
    Contents
    • Nursery rhyme alphabet
    • Nursery numbers
    • The tiny tea party
    • The book of trades.
    Other format(s)
    Also available in an electronic version.
    Other title(s)
    • Warne's mounted picture toy book
    • Tiny tea party.
    • Book of trades.
    OCLC
    177773537
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