Accession number
PML 88737
Published
London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons, Paternoster Row, 1868.
Notes
"Funny animals. A coloured picture book for the nursery"--cover title.
T.p. illustrated with publisher's logo and printed in red.
Printed on one side of leaves, only.
Each section has a separate engraved half-title with vignette.
The illustrations are probably the work of Comus, the pseudonym of R.M. Ballantyne (cf. Gascoigne, Milestones...)
The plates are pen-and-ink lithographs with color added from engraved relief blocks (cf. Nelson prints, Gascoigne, How to...)
T.p. illustrated with publisher's logo and printed in red.
Printed on one side of leaves, only.
Each section has a separate engraved half-title with vignette.
The illustrations are probably the work of Comus, the pseudonym of R.M. Ballantyne (cf. Gascoigne, Milestones...)
The plates are pen-and-ink lithographs with color added from engraved relief blocks (cf. Nelson prints, Gascoigne, How to...)
Description
[78] p. : col. ill. ; 27.7 x 19 cm
Provenance
Inscription in blue crayon inside upper cover: W[illegible] M. Turner.
Binding
Publisher's pictorial purple pebble grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind.
Classification
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