Warne's picture natural history
Subtitle: fish, insects, and reptiles
By: with letterpress descriptions and two hundred & twenty-five illustrations printed in Kronheim's oil colours.
Contributors: Kronheim & Co.
Series: Warne's national nursery library
Publisher: Frederick Warne & Co.; Scribner, Welford, and Armstrong
Published: 1872
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
Subjects: Illustrated children's books -- Specimens.; Yellowback books -- Specimens.; Zoology -- Juvenile literature.; Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
Genres: Specimens.; Juvenile literature.
Other titles: National natural history; Fish, reptiles &c.
Notes: Date range based on form of publisher's name.  Cf. Topp, Chester.  Victorian yellowbacks & paperbacks, Vol. IV, 1999.

Colour wood-engraved illustrations include areas printed in colour with metal. Illustrations are unsigned.

"National Nursery Library-One Shilling."--Cover.

One of six volumes in the series "National Nursery Library", published from 1872-1880.  Cf.  St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, 1958.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 46.

MASS copy: Bound in quarter red diaper-grain cloth and glazed yellow paper-covered boards printed in black, red and blue.  Upper cover printed with titling and illustration replicated from the text.  Lower cover printed with publisher's advertisements.  Spine blocked in black.  With pale pastel yellow endpapers. Lacking free endpapers, p. [1-2], [i-ii] at beginning (includes t.p.), p. 1-2, 31-32, 97-98, 127 and p. [1] at end.