Aunt Louisa's Nursery Favourite
Subtitle: comprising Diamonds and toads, Dick Whittington, Lily Sweetbriar, Uncle's farm yard
By: with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim,
Contributors: Valentine, Mrs. d. 1899.; Greenaway, Kate, 1846-1901.; Bayman, Charles, fl. 1864-1873.; Kronheim & Co.; H. and C. Treacher (Firm); Bone & Son
Publisher: Frederick Warne and Co.; Scribner, Welford and Co.
Published: 1870
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Fairy tales.; Country life -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: Aunt Louisa's nursery favourite :
Notes: Publisher's device printed on t.p.

Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal.  Plates are unsigned and without imprint.  All are with guard sheets.

Plates in the story "Diamonds and toads" are the same as those used in an edition of this story published separately [between 1868 and 1871] in the series "Aunt Louisa's London toy books" by Frederick Warne & Co.  See McLean T 0065.  Illustrations in this story are by Kate Greenaway.  Cf. Engen, Rodney K.  Kate Greenaway, 1976.

"Aunt Louisa" was a pseudonym of Laura Valentine, general editor of Warne's publishing house.

Includes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces, tail-pieces and initials.

MASS copy: Bound in purple pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean T 0122.  Upper cover blocked in gold with decorative title that includes signature: "CB" [i.e. Charles Bayman?].  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  W. Bone & Son  76, Fleet St. London E. C.".  With bookseller's label: "H. & C. Treacher,  Booksellers, Publishers and Stationers. 1, North St. & 44 East St.  Brighton".
Table of contents: title: Diamonds and Toads; title: The old ballad of Dick Whittington; title: Lily Sweetbriar; title: Uncle's farm yard.