Details

Subject(s)

• English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works [Browse]

Related name

• Frederick Warne & Co. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Fairy tales [Browse]
• Printed boards [Browse]
• Primers (Instructional books) [Browse]

Series

Little tots' picture books

Notes

• Date based on 1881 opening of Warne's NY offices.
• Series from advertising insert tipped into Cotsen c. 1, listing 4 titles.
• An illustrated ABC, followed by short reading passages and abridged versions of fairy tales.
• Illustrations: Chromolithographed fronts. and 12 leaves of plates depicting animated ABC figures and illustrating scenes from fairy tales; text pages also ill.
• Princeton copy 1 "Uniform with this Volume, Price 3/6 net, Picture & Story Books for the Children: Little Tots' Picture Books ... "--Publisher's advertising flyer tipped in onto front pastedown.
• Princeton copy 2 "Property Room, Not to be taken away"--Warne Archive inked stamp on front free endpaper.
• Princeton copy 2 Warne Archive.
• Princeton copy 1 Pub. olive cloth bds/, upper cover black- and gilt-stamped with pictorial design, and also with circular chromolithograph inlay at center; spine with black-stamped title.
• Princeton copy 2 Pub. color-printed paper-covered bds., blue upper with chromolithograph of a young Victorian girl and a dog at Brighton Beach; lower cover in buff paper; red cloth spine strip.

Other title(s)

• Cinderella. English
• Little Red Riding Hood. English.
• Puss in Boots. English.
• Aladdin. English
• Ass-skin.

OCLC

177841004

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