Ro utledge's coloured picture book
Subtitle: containing The fancy dress ball, Annie and Jack in London, The enraged miller, Old King Cole : with thirty-two pages of coloured illustrations.
Contributors: Crane, Walter, 1845-1915.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Notes: Date based on British Library Public Catalogue.

Publisher's advertisement printed on t.p. verso.

Most colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned.  Plates in the story "Annie and Jack in London" are with Walter Crane's monogrammatic signature.  Plates in the story "Old King Cole" are with the signature: "WJR".  Some plates include areas printed in colour with metal.

Leaves in the story "Annie and Jack in London" are the same as those used for this story published [1872] in "Walter Crane's Picture Book"  and in "Chattering Jack's picture book" published [1976] by George Routledge and Sons.  See McLean T 0147 and McLean T 0148.

Publisher's advertisements on recto and verso of leaf [1] at end.

MASS copy: Bound in green pebble-grain cloth blocked in black, gold and blind.  Upper cover with large glazed paper onlay printed with colour wood-engraved illustration similar to those within the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With pale pastel orange endpapers.  With ownership inscription dated 1912: "Dorothy Agnes Brown".
Table of contents: value: The fancy dress ball; value: Annie and Jack in London; value: The enraged miller; value: Old King Cole.