Our pets' picture book
By: with twenty-six pages of plates, printed in colours by Kronheim & Co. and E. Evans.
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905.; Crane, Walter, 1845-1915.; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1873
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Our pets' coloured picture book; Routledge's coloured picture book
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

Publisher's advertisements on t.p. verso and on recto and verso of leaf [2] at end.

Colour wood-engraved plates in the first three stories include areas printed in colour with metal.  One is signed "E. Evans Sc.".  Others are unsigned and without imprint.

Colour wood-engraved plates in the story "Noah's Ark ABC" are the same as those engraved by Edmund Evans for "Noah's Ark Alphabet" published as part of the series "Routledge's New Sixpenny Toy Books" in [1872] by George Routledge & Sons, and again in [1892] by George Routledge and Sons Limited as number 110 in the same series.  Cf. Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books.  See McLean T 0030.

Plates in the story "Noah's Ark ABC" are with Walter Crane's monogrammatic signature.

MASS copy: Bound in green diaper-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover with large glazed paper onlay printed with colour wood-engraved illustration similar to those within the text.  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With pale pastel orange endpapers.
Table of contents: value: Our pets; value: Nursery rhymes; value: Aladdin; value: Noah's Ark ABC.