Title from caption and publication statement from cover.

Date taken from Masaki, Tomoko. A history of Victorian popular picture books, 2006.

Colour wood-engraved plates are unsigned and without imprint. Plates include areas printed with metal.

"One Shilling: or, Mounted on Cloth, Two Shillings."--Cover.

First and last leaves pasted to cover.

Issued as number 68 in the series "Routledge's Shilling Toy Books". Text and plates are printed by Kronheim & Co. Cf. Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books.

Masaki, Tomoko. History of Victorian popular picture books, p. 670-671.

MASS copy: In original glazed pink printed paper wrappers. Upper wrapper printed in black, red, yellow and blue with titling within wood-engraved decorative border. Upper cover with imprint: "Kronheim & Co., London, Manchester, and New York.". Lower wrapper printed in black with publisher's advertisement listing titles in "Routledge's Shilling Toy Books. With large Illustrations by H. S. Marks, J. D. Watson, H. Weir, Walter Crane and F. Keyl, Printed in Colours by Kronheim & Co., Leighton Brothers, Edmund Evans, and Dalziel Brothers.", the list including "68. Robin's Christmas Song".