The child's illuminated fablebook.
Contributors: Humphreys, Henry Noel, 1810-1879
Publisher: William Smith
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 23
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Child's first fable book
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Decorative border on t.p. with imprints: "Woods & Co. Lith" and "107 Gt. Rusl. St".

Printed leaves bound facing each other.  Each leaf bound on the left is with small chromolithographed illustration and wide illustrated decorative border.  Each leaf bound on the right is with wide decorative rusticated border lithographed in brown.

With small chromolithographed decorative initials.

Illustrations and borders are unsigned.

Designed by Henry Noel Humphreys as a companion book to "Child's first prayer book of 1844".  See McLean D 0200. Cf. Leathlean, Howard. "Henry Noel Humphreys" in The private library, Fifth series, Vol.3:3, Autumn 2000, p. 140.

MASS copy 1: Bound in pink fine vertical rib-grain cloth blocked in blind.  Upper cover with full-page paper onlay chromolithographed with title incorporated into wide decorative border with central illustration similar to those within the text.  With ownership inscription dated 1859: "Agnes [AM Nowles?] Leawood".

MASS copy 2: Bound in pink fine horizontal rib-grain cloth blocked in blind in the same design and with the same chromolithographed paper onlay as copy 1.  With ownership inscription dated 1856: "Georgiana H. Harrison.".
Table of contents: value: Against idleness. The ant & the grasshopper; value: Against vain display. The cock & the jewel; value: Against pride and conceit. The gnat & the lion; value: Patience and perseverance. The mouse & the lion; value: Against listening to bad advice. The cat & the monkey; value: Against greediness. The fox & the stork; value: Against discontent. The dog & the shadow; value: On self-reliance. The horse & the stag; value: Against love of flattery. The fox and raven; value: Against foolish disparagement. The fox & the grapes; value: On the value of the present moment. The hare & tortoise.