Colored nursery picture every day book.
By: edited by Mrs. Chas Butler
Contributors: Butler, Chas., Mrs
Publisher: T. Dean & Son, Threadneedle Street.
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Alphabets -- Juvenile literature
Other titles: Alphabet of flowers; Verse and picture alphabet; New little stories about the alphabet; Home first book; Coloured nursery picture every day book; Stories about the alphabet
Notes: Listed in English catalogue I, p. 370, under title "Home first book": "... edited by Mrs. C. Butler, 16mo, 1s 6d Dean 1854". The series is listed on p. 113, under "Butler (Mrs. C.)": "Coloured nursery picture books, 4v. 16mo, each 1s 6d Dean & Son 1856"

Anonymous illustrations consist of hand-colored wood engravings, except frontispiece and t.p. (p. [2] and [3], first count), which are hand-colored lithographs

In purple cloth (fades to tan); front and back covers with blind-stamped border; front cover title in gold, "The colored nursery picture every day book/Home first book"; spine lettered in gold, "The Home first book"; light apple green coated endpapers

Second and third parts have half titles with frontispiece on verso. Third part caption/running title: Stories about the alphabet

Publisher's advertisements on p. [2]-[3] at end, concluding with note concerning "Coloured nursery picture Sunday books"

King Collection copy consists solely of p. [3]-30 of the second group, spine oversewn, caption title: The verse and picture alphabet.
Table of contents: value: Alphabet of flowers; value: The verse and picture alphabet; value: New little stories about the alphabet