Warne's national nursery library
Subtitle: comprising Jack and Jill, Cock Robin's courtship, Dame Trot and her cat, the house that Jack built, the old woman and her pig : with forty pages of coloured illustrations.
Series: Warne's national nursery library
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Yellowback books -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: National nursery library; Jack and Jill &c.
Notes: Date range based on form of publisher's name.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999.

Publisher's advertisement for other volumes in the series on p. [6].

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

"The Jack and Jill Issue-One Shilling."--Cover.

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

One of six volumes in the series "National Nursery Library", published from 1872-1880.  Cf.  St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, 1958.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 46.

MASS copy: Bound in quarter red-brown pebble-grain cloth and glazed yellow paper-covered boards printed in black, red and blue.  Upper cover printed with titling and illustration replicated from the text.  Lower cover printed with publisher's advertisements.  Spine blocked in black.  With cream glazed endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "John R. Rowe & Son,  Bookbinders, etc.  Leicester.".
Table of contents: title: Jack and Jill; title: Cock Robin's courtship; title: Dame Trot and her cat; title: The house that Jack built; title: The old woman and her pig.