Includes wood-engraved decorative initials, head-piece and tail-pieces.

Originally produced in 1860 by Joseph Cundall under the imprint of Sampson Low, Son, & Co. with colour plates printed by Leighton. Cf. McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, 1972. See McLean D 1034.

Colour wood-engraved plates include areas printed in colour with metal. Some plates are with signature: "BF" [i.e. Birket Foster]. Others are unsigned.

All wood-engraved plates, except one, are the same as those used in the 1860 edition of this title published by Sampson Low, Son, & Co.

Most wood-engraved plates were also used in the children's book "Warwick House toy book : Choice nursery songs" published in [1868] by Ward, Lock & Tyler. See McLean T 0082.

McLean, Ruari. Victorian book design and colour printing, p. 145, 152-153.

St. John, Judith. Osborne collection of early children's books, Vol. 1, p. 78-79.

MASS copy: Bound in orange pebble-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind; a.e.g.