Aunt Louisa's choice present
Subtitle: comprising Famous horses, Noted horses, Famous dogs, Noted dogs
By: by Herring and Landseer ; twenty-four pictures printed in colours by J. Butterfield with descriptive letterpress.
Contributors: Valentine, Mrs. d. 1899.; Landseer, Edwin Henry, Sir, 1802-1873.; Butterfield, J.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1876
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Horses -- Juvenile literature.; Dogs -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Aunt Louisa's choice present :
Notes: Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Chromolithographed plates are unsigned and without imprint.  Plates are with guard sheets.

"Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house.

Plates in the story "Famous dogs" and two in "Noted dogs" are the same (with some differences in colouring) as those used in an edition of the story "Famous dogs" published separately [between 1872 and 1877] in the series "Aunt Louisa's London toy books" by Frederick Warne & Co.  See McLean T 0058.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with titling and parts of illustrations replicated from the text. With bookseller's label: "J. N. MacKinlay,  Bookseller,  421, Sauchiehall St.  Glasgow.".  With ownership label: "Pegge of Stoney Stanton, Leicestershire.".  With presentation inscription dated "Xmas 1877".
Table of contents: value: Famous horses; value: Noted horses; value: Famous dogs; value: Noted dogs.