Warne's picture puzzle album
Subtitle: comprising The doll and her dresses, Our kings and queens, The book of trades, The horse
By: with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim.
Contributors: Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Warne's picture puzzle album :
Notes: Date based on date in English Catalogue of Books for separately issued edition of "The book of trades" and form of New York publisher's name.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999.

Publisher's monogram printed on t.p.

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

Plates in the story "The book of trades" are the same as those used in an edition of this story published separately in [1870] in the series "Warne's picture puzzle toy books" by F. Warne & Co.  See McLean T 0078.

"The key pages in the Pocket of the Cover contain the objects, figures, and parts of figures, belonging to the blanks left in the picture-book.  The objects, &c., are all numbered according to the pages to which they belong ... They must be cut out neatly and very exactly, and stuck on with gum* in the blanks which they fit ... "--How to use this Picture-Book.

MASS copy: Bound in lavender pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  With pale pastel yellow endpapers.  Most figures have been cut out and pasted onto the corresponding plates.