poll-parrot picture book
Subtitle: containing Tittums and Fido, Ann and her mamma, Reynard the fox, The cats' tea-party
By: with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim.
Contributors: Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1871
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Animals -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

T.p. printed within thin black rule border.

Publisher's monogram printed on t.p.

Some colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal. Most are unsigned and without imprint.  Most plates in the story "The cats' tea-party" are with monogrammatic signature: "hw".

Plates in the story "Reynard the fox" are the same as those used in an edition of this story published separately in [1871] in the series "Routledge's shilling toy books" by George Routledge & Sons.  See McLean T 0050.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black, red and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold, red and black with titling and illustration similar to those within the text.  With presentation inscription dated 1892.
Table of contents: class: section
title: Tittums and Fido; class: section
title: Ann and her mamma; class: section
title: Reynard the fox; class: section
title: The cats' tea-party.