| Record ID: |
2190138 |
| Variant Title: |
Coloured nursery picture every day book |
| Variant Title: |
Home first book |
| Format: |
Regular Print Book |
| Physical description: |
24, [2], 31, [1], 29, [2] pages, [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece) : color illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Date acquired: |
Not available |
| More creator details: |
edited by Mrs. Chas Butler. |
| General note: |
Anonymous illustrations consist of hand-colored wood engravings, except frontispiece and t.p. which are hand-colored lithographs. |
| General note: |
In green cloth ; 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". |
| General note: |
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". |
| General note: |
Publisher's advertisements on p. [2] at end, concluding with note concerning "Coloured nursery picture Sunday books" and on upper and lower endpapers. |
| General note: |
Second and third parts have half titles with frontispiece on verso. |
| Contents note: |
Alphabet of flowers -- The verse and picture alphabet -- Stories about the alphabet. |
| Access restriction: |
FOR USE IN OSBORNE COLLECTION ONLY. NOT AVAILABLE FOR INTERLOAN. |
| Contributor: |
Butler, Chas., Mrs.
|
| Contributor: |
Dean & Son, publisher. |
| Uniform title: |
Alphabet of flowers. |
| Uniform title: |
Stories about the alphabet. |
| Uniform title: |
Verse and picture alphabet. |
