A present for my darling
Subtitle: containing This little pig went to market, Nursery tales, Tom Thumb's alphabet : with eighteen pages of coloured illustrations.
Contributors: Dalziel Brothers.; Leighton Brothers.
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1867
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 26
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Routledge's coloured picture book
Notes: Date taken from St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books.

Publisher's advertisement printed on t.p. verso.

Most colour wood-engraved plates are with imprint: "Leighton, Brothers" or "Leighton, Bros." and several also include signature: "Dalziel Sc.".  Plates include areas printed in colour with metal.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 2, p. 1047.

MASS copy: Bound in purple pebble-grain cloth blocked in black, gold 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.  With presentation inscription dated 1873.  With pale pastel orange endpapers.  Lacking lower free endpaper.  With 15 x 23 cm. amateur watercolour illustration of a ship mounted on 20 x 28 cm. paper laid in.
Table of contents: value: This little pig went to market; value: Nursery tales; value: Tom Thumb's alphabet.