Buds and blossoms
Subtitle: or, Stories for children.
Contributors: Fawcett, Benjamin, 1808-1893; Lydon, A. F.
Publisher: Groombridge and Sons
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.
Genres: Specimens.
Other titles: Stories for children
Notes: Date taken from British Library Public Catalogue.

Added colour wood-engraved t.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates are signed: "A. F. Lydon".  Plates are printed by Benjamin Fawcett.  Cf. McLean, Ruari.  Benjamin Fawcett, 1988.

Most wood-engraved illustrations within the text are signed: "CAS" and "E.E. Sc.".  Others are signed "CAS" and "WTG".

Publisher's advertisements on p. [161-176] at end include wood-engraved illustration.

MASS copy: Bound in blue sand-grain cloth blocked in gold, black and blind.  Spine with imprint: "Groombridge".  Boards with bevelled edges; a.e.g.  With yellow glazed endpapers.  Lacking upper free endpaper.
Table of contents: value: The story of a daisy; value: Rover and his friends; value: The child's search for fairies; value: Little Frank; value: The fisherman's children; value: The little fortune seekers; value: Little Peepy; value: The blackberry gathering; value: Rabbits and peewits; value: The fir tree's story.