Variant A[1866]: upper wrapper with spear-heads decorated frame, uniform for the series, printed in red, yellow, blue and the black key on pink paper; on upper wrapper, at head, inside the decorated frame: "ONE SHILLING."; no series number; series title: "[blue, outlined in red, black shade] AUNT LOUISA’S | [black, red shade] LONDON TOY BOOKS"; title: "[black, red shade] EDITH AND MILLY'S | [blue, outlined in red, black shade] HOUSEKEEPING | [red, outlined in black] LONDON. | [black] FREDERICK WARNE & CO."; no printers' caption; on lower wrapper, inserted in a frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne's nursery literature. | Daily Telegraph, December 1865. | […] Atlas, January, 1866. | [two columns, first] Warne's large picture toy books. | In large crown 4to, sixpence each, or mounted, one shilling, with covers | and plates printed in colours. | [titles nos. 1-11, the last of which published in 1866] | Nursery rhymes and stories. | Imperial 16mo, sixpence, handsome wrapper, each containing 20 to 30 | illustrations. | [titles nos. 1-5] | The above are also kept with the plates coloured, price one shilling each. | Alphabets and primers. | […] | Warne's popular alphabets. | […] | Aunt Louisa's London toy books. | With illustrations beautifully printed in colours. Demy 4to, printed | wrappers, 1s. each; or mounted with linen, 2s. each. | [titles nos. 1-4, published in 1865, the fifth published in 1866 is not listed] | Aunt Louisa's Sunday picture books. | With 12 original illustrations, printed in colours. Demy 4to, fancy | wrapper, 1 s. each; or mounted with linen, 2s. each. | [titles nos. 1-2, published in 1865, the third published in 1866 is not listed] | Aunt Louisa's London toy book. | With 24 pages of original plates, printed in oil colours by Kronheim. | Demy 4to, elegantly gilt, 5s. | Nursery rhymes (our favourite). | With upwards of 100 illustrations by Bayes, T. Dalziel, and Zwecker. | Engraved by the Brothers Dalziel. Small 4to, gilt, 3s. 6d.; with | the plates fully coloured, 5s. | Warne's picture book. […] | Royal 4to, boards, new style of cover, 5s.; | with the plates finely coloured, 10s. 6d. | Warne's picture playmate. Being the | large picture toys, in one volume. With 48 pages of illustrations, | in colours. Large crown 8vo, gilt, 3s. 6d. | In and out of school. […] | by John Absolon. Impl. 8vo, boards, 2s. 6d. […] | Little Lily's alphabet. With 26 original | illustrations by Oscar Pletsch. Impl. 8vo, boards, 2s. 6d. […] | The children's delight. | In oblong demy, 3s. 6d., cloth boards. | Lear's book of nonsense. 100 illustrations. | Or with the plates fully coloured, 6s.; or in three different volumes, | boards, plain 1s., coloured 2s.; each with 34 illustrations. | Price five shillings, cloth extra. | In imperial 16mo, 320 pages. | The book of nursery tales. | […]"; at foot, inside the frame: "LONDON: FREDK. WARNE & CO., BEDFORD STREET, COVENT GARDEN."; outside the frame: "KRONHEIM & CO., LONDON."; inside illustrations with printers' captions, at foot, on the left: "
Kronheim & Co.,", on the right: "
London."
Variant B[1875]: same upper wrapper as
pcb1064, with palmette-decorated frame, uniform for the series, printed in red, blue, yellow and the black key on pink paper; at head, outside the frame: "PRICE ONE SHILLING; or, MOUNTED WITH LINEN, TWO SHILLINGS."; within the decorated frame, at head, inserted in a roundel at the centre of the upper border, series number: "7"; specific for this title: "[black, red shade] EDITH AND MILLY'S | [blue, outlined in red, black shade] HOUSEKEEPING | [red, outlined in black] LONDON. | [black] FREDERICK WARNE & CO."; at foot, outside the frame: "Kronheim & Co., London, Manchester, and New York."; on lower wrapper, inserted in a frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne’s nursery literature. | [two columns, first] Aunt Louisa's London toy books. | [...] | [titles nos. 1-11, 13-25, 29-42, the last of which published in 1875 (
Publishers' Circular (September 16, 1875): 680)] | [second] Warne's "excelsior" toy books. | […] | [titles nos. 1-33, the last of which published in 1872] | [at centre] In Imperial 16mo, 3d. each, picture cover; or on linen, 6d. | Aunt Friendly's toy books. | [for a total of 24 titles from first and second series, the last of which published in 1869]"; at foot, inside the frame: "London: – Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden | New York: – Scribner, Welford and Armstrong."; inside illustrations without printers' captions and reprinted replacing the black background with hatched black; text different from the one in variant A