Which is best
Subtitle: being stories about the five divisions of the world and stories of the five senses.
Contributors: Cunningham, John, engraver, fl. 1840s-1860s.; Dean & Son
Publisher: Thomas Dean and Son
Published: 1849
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 51
Subjects: Senses and sensation -- Juvenile literature.; Continents -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Which is best? :; Which is the best
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Tinted lithographed illustrated t.p. plate included in pagination.

Preliminary lithographed plate is tinted yellow-beige.  Plate is with signature: "JRB".

Wood-engraved plates are tinted turquoise.  Plates are unsigned.  All are with title captions.

One wood-engraved illustration is signed "Cunningham".  Others are unsigned.

Includes wood-engraved decorative and illustrated head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-2 at end.

MASS copy 1: Bound in turquoise blue coarse diagonal rib-grain cloth printed with a pastel green horizontal stripe pattern blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.  With pastel yellow endpapers.

MASS copy 2: Bound in turquoise blue coarse vertical rib-grain cloth printed with the same pastel green horizontal stripe pattern and blocked in gold and blind in the same design as copy 1.  With pale pastel yellow endpapers.  With ownership inscription: "FJ's copy" [i.e. Fianach Jardine].  Lacking upper free endpaper.
Table of contents: value: Story of the kind governess and her pupils; value: Story of the deaf gentleman; value: Interesting story of Patty Bell, the little orphan; value: The happy reformation of cousin James; value: Australia and Polynesia; value: Omoko, King of Africa; value: The elephant, and little dog of Asia; value: The American slave trade; value: Europe, English freedom.