Aunt Friendly's nursery keepsake
Subtitle: containing seventy-two pages of pictures
By: printed in colours by Kronheim ; with letter-press descriptions.
Contributors: Kronheim & Co.
Series: Warne's children's library
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 12
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Children's stories -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.; Fairy tales.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Aunt Friendly's nursery keepsake:
Notes: Aunt Friendly is a pseudonym of Sarah Schoonmaker Baker.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Preface dated 1870.

Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Illustrations and plates include areas printed in colour with metal.

Most illustrations and plates are unsigned.  One is signed "END".

Sheets and plates (with some differences in colouring) for "Hop o' my thumb", "The three bears", "Diamonds and toads", "Tom Thumb" and "The ugly duckling" were also used in "Aunt Friendly's nursery book" published in London by Frederick Warne and Co. and New York by Scribner, Welford and Armstrong in [1872].  Plates and illustrations for "Sing-a-song of sixpence" are also the same as those used in this publication.  See McLean D 0044.

Sheets and plates (with some differences in colouring) for "Jack and the bean stalk", "The frog who would a wooing go", "The three little pigs", "Puss in boots", "Dame Trot and her cat" and "The old woman and her pig" were also used in "Aunt Friendly's picture book" published in London by Frederick Warne and Co and New York by Scribner, Welford and Armstrong in [1872].  See McLean D 0047.

MASS copy: Bound in red-orange sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold with the titling and an illustrative decorative border.  Upper cover and spine with signature: "WH".  Lower cover blocked in blind with publisher's monogrammatic device.  Spine with imprint: "Warne's children's library".  Boards with bevelled edges. 
Table of contents: value: Sing-a-song of sixpence; value: The frog who would a wooing go; value: The three little pigs; value: The ugly duckling; value: Puss in boots; value: Dame Trot and her cat; value: The old woman and her pig; value: Tom Thumb; value: The three bears; value: Jack and the bean stalk; value: Diamonds and toads; value: Hop o' my thumb.