Aunt Louisa's home favourites
Subtitle: comprising My favourites, Home pets, Country pets, Household pets
By: with twenty-four pages of illustrations, printed in colours by Kronheim.
Contributors: Valentine, Mrs. d. 1899.; Weir, Harrison, 1824-1906.; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Animals -- Juvenile literature.; Pets -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Aunt Louisa's Home favourites :
Notes: Date based on form of New York publisher's name.  Cf. Topp, Chester W.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

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

"Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house.

Plates in the story "Country pets" are the same as those used in an edition of this story published separately [between 1868 and 1871] in the series "Aunt Louisa's London toy books" by Frederick Warne & Co.  See McLean T 0056.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with titling and illustrations similar to those within the text.
Table of contents: value: My favourites; value: Home pets; value: Country pets; value: Household pets.