Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Book : Comprising Joseph and his Brethren, the Story of King David, The Wonders of Providence, The Proverbs of Solomon / with twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Evans.

London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Co., [1867].

[London] : Edmund Evans.

Warne's choice editions

5s.

Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Frederick Warne & Co. (publisher)
Friston, David Henry (illustrator)
Scribner, Welford and Co. (publisher)

Clothbound
Collective volume

Size
27x23 cm
Format and pagination
4° : 54 ll. : [6] [24] leaves of text, [24] leaves of plates
Signatures
π³ A/C¹² χ¹ D/F¹² χ¹ G/I¹² χ¹ K/M¹²
Signatures note

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Each leave inter-foliated with blank sheet
4 gathering, sewn, unpaginated
Contents
[1], title page: "Aunt Louisa's | Sunday Picture Book. | Comprising | [two columns, first] Joseph and his Brethren. | The Story of king David. | [second] The Wonders of Providence. | The Proverbs of Solomon. | [at centre] with | twenty-four pages of illustrations, | [fancy] Printed in Colours by Evans. | [publishers' mark within a roundel, with diamond and flowers] FW&Co F. Warne & Co. Bedford St. Covent Gardn | London: | Frederick Warne and Co. | Bedford Street, Covent Garden | New York: Scribner, Welford and Co."; [2], Preface.
Covers
Cloth cover, gilt; upper cover, monogrammed "WH", with decorative frame; at centre, gilt, with decorated letter-heads: "Aunt Louisa's | Sunday | Picture Book | Coloured illustrations."
Back cover, blind stamped
Blank white endpapers
On lower paste-downs of TPL-OsC copy, binders' ticket; "Bound by | W. Bone & Son | London E.C. | 76, Fleet St"
Illustrations
Joseph and his Brethren has the same 12 illustrations as pcb984, two per page, printed in colour on one side of the sheet only
The Story of King David has the same 12 illustrations as pcb991, two per page, printed in colour on one side of the sheet only
The Wonders of Providence has the same 12 illustrations as pcb992, two per page, printed in colour on one side of the sheet only
The Proverbs of Solomon has the same 12 illustrations as pcb987, two per page, printed in colour on one side of the sheet only
Source for date
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Also recorded on the lower wrapper of The London Alphabet (pcb1066)

Saturday Review (December 29, 1866), 812: "Frederick Warne & Co., Publishers. [...] Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture-Book. Ditto [with 24 pages of plates, printed in colours, and mounted throughout]"
Athenaeum (June 8, 1867), 746: "Frederick Warne & Co., Publishers [...] Price ten shillings and sixpence each. [...] Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Book. Demy 4to, printed in colours, mounted throughout, cloth gilt, gilt edges. [...] In crown 8vo. price 5s. each fully illustrated. [...] Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Book. Demy 4to."

Variant A
Green cloth cover
Variant B
Red cloth cover
Variant C
Blue cloth cover

TPL-OsC: B VAL (FOLIO) (variant A; Gift of Ann Alycin and Elliott Hayes; Bequest in memory of John Sullivan Hayes & Jo Ann Elliott Hayes; Digital copy)
TPL-OsC: B VAL (FOLIO) (Ann Alycin and Elliott Hayes; Bequest in memory of John Sullivan Hayes & Jo Ann Elliott Hayes; not analysed)

Cellar Stories Bookstore: 53455 (variant B; not analysed)
Elaine Beardsell: 9024 (variant B; not analysed)
Stella & Rose's Books: 302005 (variant B)
Yesterday's Gallery and Babylon: 12466 (variant C)

First published as
Joseph and his Brethren. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]
First published as
The Story of King David. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1866]
First published as
The Wonders of Providence : 104th Psalm. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1866]
First published as
The Proverbs of Solomon. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]

Sunday books

https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1240

Francesca Tancini, "Aunt Louisa's Sunday Picture Book". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 21, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1240