Cock Sparrow.
Contributors: Kronheim & Co.
Series: Routledge's shilling toy books -- no. 65
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1873
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Birds -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile fiction.
Other titles: How Cock Sparrow kept his Christmas
Notes: Publication statement from cover.

Date taken from Masaki, Tomoko. A history of Victorian popular picture books, 2006.

Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  Plates are unsigned and without imprint.

Printed by Kronheim & Co.  Cf.  Masaki, Tomoko. A history of Victorian popular picture books.

Plates are the same as those used in another edition of this title published in [1868] by Cassell, Petter & Galpin.  See McLean T 0083.

"One Shilling: or, Mounted on Cloth, Two Shillings."--Cover.

Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books, p. 668-669.

MASS copy: In original glazed pink printed paper wrappers.  Upper wrapper printed in blue, red, yellow, black and green with titling within wood-engraved decorative border.  Upper wrapper with imprint: "Kronheim & Co., London, Manchester, and New York.".  Lower wrapper printed in black with publisher's advertisement listing titles in "Routledge's Shilling Toy Books", the list including "65. Cock Sparrow".  With presentation inscription dated "Xmas 1877".