Large pictures with little stories for young children
By: by the author of "Chickseed without chickweed," &c. &c.
Contributors: Aitken, William, bookseller; Stevens, William, printer; Gregory, Collins & Reynolds
Publisher: Darton and Co.
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.; Slavery -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile fiction.
Notes: Date based on form of publisher's name and bookseller's stamp in Massey Library copy.  Cf. Brown, Philip A. H. London publishers and printers, 1982 and British Book Trade Index (BBTI) web presence.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint.  All are with captions.

Plates were probably printed by Gregory, Collins and Reynolds.  Cf. Ruari McLean's notes in Massey College Library.

MASS copy: Bound in blue morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind.  With bright yellow endpapers.  With embossed bookseller's stamp: "W. Aitken  43, Gt. Charlotte St.  &, 24, Elliot St.  Liverpool".  Lacking lower free endpaper.