Warne's national nursery library
Subtitle: comprising Red Riding-Hood, Puss-in-Boots, Mother Hubbard, Cock Robin's death, Jack and the bean-stalk : 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
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.  All are with captions.

"The Red Riding Hood 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 green pebble-grain cloth and glazed pink 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.  With ownership inscription: "Jabery Colson".
Table of contents: value: Red Riding-Hood; value: Puss-in-Boots; value: Mother Hubbard; value: Cock Robin's death; value: Jack and the bean-stalk.