Keepsake for the young
Subtitle: a book of amusement
By: by Aunt Friendly ... ; with one hundred and eighty page illustrations.
Contributors: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915; Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899; Staniland, Charles Joseph, 1838-1916; Cooper, Alfred W.; Small, William, 1843-1929; Linton, W. J. 1812-1897; Cheshire, William, fl. 1862-1901.; Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905; Paterson, Robert, fl. 1860-1899; Tenniel, John, Sir, 1820-1914; Dalziel Brothers; Butterworth and Heath,; Camden Press
Series: Little folks library
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Children's stories -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Keepsake for the young :; Keepsake for the young :; Keepsake for the young :
Notes: Aunt Friendly is a pseudonym of Sarah Schoonmaker Baker.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Date based on Chester Topp's "Victorian Yellowbacks & Paperbacks, 1849-1905", Vol. IV, 1999, p. xii: "The imprint of the firm from 1866 to 1867 was Frederick Warne & Co., London; Scribner & Co., New York.  From 1868 to 1871 it was joined with Scribner, Welford & Co., New York; and from 1872 to 1877 it was joined with Scribner, Welford & Armstrong, New York.".

British Library Public Catalogue and English Catalogue of Books date this publication [1871].

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Printer's device on t.p. verso and colophon.

With wood-engraved ill. caption t.p.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [3-6] at end.

Includes wood-engraved decorative initials, head-pieces and tail-pieces.

Illustrators include Walter Crane, Birket Foster, C. J. Staniland, Alfred W. Cooper, W. Small, W. Jones and others.  Engravers include Dalziel, Butterworth & Heath, W. J. Linton, Sargent, W. Cheshire, E. Evans, R. Paterson and others.

Colour wood-engraved preliminary plate with signature: "JT" [i.e. John Tenniel?].

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with green paper onlay border design blocked in gold with miniature illustrations similar to those within the text. Spine blocked in gold with similar illustrative elements.  Lower cover blocked in blind with publisher's monogrammatic device.  Spine with imprint: "Little folks library".