Aunt Friendly's nursery book
Subtitle: containing thirty-six pages of pictures
By: printed in colours by Kronheim ; with letter-press descriptions.
Contributors: Downard, Ebenezer Newman, fl. 1849-1892; Kronheim & Co.
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 10
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Children's stories -- Specimens.; Nursery rhymes.; Fairy tales.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Aunt Friendly's nursery book :
Notes: Aunt Friendly is a pseudonym of Sarah Schoonmaker Baker.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.

Date taken from English Catalogue of Books.

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" [i.e. Ebenezer Newman Downard?].

Sheets and plates (with some differences in colouring) for all stories except "Sing-a-song of sixpence" were also used in "Aunt Friendly's nursery keepsake" published in London by Frederick Warne and Co. and New York by Scribner, Welford and Co. in 1870.  Plates and illustrations for "Sing-a-song of sixpence" were also used in this publication.  See McLean D 0045.

MASS copy: Bound in red-brown patterned sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Upper cover blocked in gold and black with an illustration replicated from the text.  Lower cover blocked in blind with publisher's monogrammatic device.  Spine with imprint: "Warne & Co.".  With ownership inscription dated 1878: "John Stainton Book".  With yellow glazed endpapers.
Table of contents: value: Hop o' my thumb; value: The three bears; value: Diamonds and toads; value: Tom Thumb; value: Sing-a-song of sixpence; value: The ugly duckling.