The boy's winter book
Subtitle: descriptive of the season, scenery, rural life, and country amusements
By: by Thomas Miller ... ; with thirty-four illustrations, engraved on wood by Henry Vizetelly and others.
Contributors: Foster, Myles Birket, 1825-1899.; Vizetelly, Henry, 1820-1894.; Vizetelly Brothers & Co.
Series: Boy's own library (Chapman and Hall)
Publisher: Chapman and Hall
Published: 1847
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
Subjects: Winter -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Winter book
Notes: Preliminary colour wood-engraved plate is with imprint: "Engraved and Printed in Colours by Vizetelly Brothers and Co.".  Plate is with signature: "B. Foster" and includes title caption.

Includes preliminary colour wood-engraved plate with title in elaborate floral border: "Winter".  Plate is unsigned.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are with signatures: "H. Vizetelly" and "B. Foster" (or "BF").  Others are unsigned.

Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-4 at end include a list of titles in the "Boy's Own Library", the list including "The Boy's Winter Book".

With the same setting of type wood-engraved illustrations and colour wood-engraved plates as used for "Winter" in the author's "The country year book : autumn & winter", published in 1847 by Chapman and Hall.  See McLean D 0741.

MASS copy: Bound in dark pink horizontal rib-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 0738; a.e. speckled red.  Upper cover blocked in gold with title and series title: "The Boy's Own Library".  With pale pastel yellow painted endpapers.  With presentation inscription dated 1848.