"The Merrie Heart, Being a Charming Collection of the old Favourite Nursery Rhymes and Short Tales. Illustrated with Eight full-page Coloured Plates from Designs by Walter Crane, and 100 Illustrations by Ernest Griset, F. Barnard, and others"--publisher's advertisement
Publisher's advertisements on last four pages.
Eight full-page color illustrations, including frontispiece, some signed W.C.
Black-and-white wood engraved illustrations and vignettes in the text, some signed E, G. or Fr. B.; attributed in some contemporary notices to J. Swain.
"London: Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, Belle Sauvage Works, Ludgate Hill, E.C."--colophon
Merrie heart