The welcome hour
Subtitle: an illustrated monthly magazine.
Contributors: Whymper, Josiah Wood, 1813-1903; Shaw and Sons
Publisher: The Book Society
Published: 1877
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 92
Subjects: Children's periodicals -- Specimens.; Christian literature for children -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: British Library Public Catalogue cites the beginning and ending date of this periodical publication as 1878-1892.

Monthly issues are continuously paged.

Each monthly issue with ill. cover page entitled "The Welcome Hour", included in the pagination.  Added t.p. includes publication information.

Includes "Contents": p. [3-4].

T.p. and preliminary plate printed within decorative black rule border.

"Price 1d."--Cover of each monthly issue.

Text printed in two columns.

"London : The Religious Book Society, 28, Paternoster Row." printed on the tail of the last page of each monthly issue.

A few wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed "W. Cheshire", and "J. W. Whimper" or "Whimper".

Volume IV of this title was published in 1880 by S. W. Partridge & Co. and James Nisbet & Co.  See McLean O 654.

MASS copy: Bound in fine diagonal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with glazed paper onlay in the shape of an arched window, chromolithographed with an illustration of a youth.  Boards with bevelled edges.
Table of contents: value: No. 1, July, 1877.; value: No. 2, August, 1877.; value: No. 3, September, 1877.; value: No. 4, October, 1877.; value: No. 5, November, 1877.; value: No. 6, December, 1877.