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Funny animals : a picture book for the nursery ; with thirty-two pages of illustrations, printed in oil colours.

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...)
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
Department