The country year book
Subtitle: descriptive of the seasons; rural scenes and rustic amusements; birds, insects, and quadrupeds.
By: by Thomas Miller ... ; with one hundred and forty illustrations, engraved on wood by Henry Vizetelly, and others.
Contributors: Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894.; Eaton & Son.; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.
Series: Boy's own library (Chapman and Hall)
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Spring -- Juvenile literature.; Summer -- Juvenile literature.; Seasons -- Juvenile literature.; Country life -- Juvenile literature.; Animals -- Juvenile literature.; Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Country year book :; Country year book :
Notes: Plates [1-2] are hand-coloured.

Preliminary plate and colour plate [4] are with signature: "BF" [i.e. Birket Foster].

Plates [1] and [4] are printed within gold decorative border.  Plate [4] includes imprint: "Engraved and Printed in Colours by Vizetelly Brothers and Co.".  Both are with title captions.

Includes wood-engraved hand-coloured plate with title in elaborate floral border: "Spring" and colour wood-engraved plate with title in floral border: "Summer".  Plates are unsigned.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed as engraved by Henry Vizetelly.  Several also include signature "B. Foster" or "BF".  Others are unsigned.

"Summer" (p. [1-2], [1]-124) is with the same setting of type (except placement of pagination on p. 86), wood-engravings and colour wood-engraved plates as the author's "The boy's summer book", published in 1846 by Chapman and Hall.  This title was published as part of the series "The boy's own library".  See McLean D 0738.

MASS copy: Bound in light green vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in blind with the spine blocked in gold, in the same design as McLean D 0741.  With pastel yellow endpapers.  With bookseller's label: "Eaton & Son  Booksellers,  College St.,  Worcester".  With presentation inscription dated 1850.