Includes frontispiece and seven other color plates numbered as pages, each having the matching outline illustration facing it to be painted; title page repeats circle of figures from frontispiece, title replacing center figures

First published 1884 by Routledge under title A painting book

Osborne gives publication date ca. 1900; Warne began reprinting Greenaway titles after purchasing copyrights from Routledge in 1890

Bound in pale green stiff paper, upper cover with girls and a doll within green border outlined in black, title in red letters also outlined in black; lower cover as described in Osborne with seven other titles also given; Warne address gives Bedford Street, London, only, with added line in small print outside ruled box showing engraving and printing by Edmund Evans; no pages pasted down, or painting directions printed.

Osborne Coll., Vol. 1, p. 220

King Collection copy has illustrations on t.p., p. 7, 17, 38, and 40 very carefully painted