• Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
Childhood's happy hours

pcb1505
pcb1505
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant A: [1865]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.Y Box VI (xix))
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
  • Childhood's happy hours. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865]. Variant B: [1867]. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 A)
TITLE
Childhood's happy hours.
VARIANT TITLE
Cover title
Childhoods' happy hours.
PUBLISHED
London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1865].
PRICE
1s.
AUTHOR
Frederick Warne & Co. (publisher)
Kronheim & Co. (printer)
Skill, Frederick John (illustrator)
TYPOLOGY
DESCRIPTION
Source for attribution
Statement of responsibility in copies not analysed: "from coloured designs by F. J. Skill" (illustrator)
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
ADVERTISEMENTS
Bookseller (June 30, 1865), 388: see pcb1024
Publishers' Circular (July 1, 1865), 355: see pcb1024
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1865]: same upper wrapper as pcb1499, variant A, without printers' caption, on yellow paper; specific for this title: "[blue, outlined in red, black shade] CHILDHOOD'S HAPPY HOURS | [red, outlined in black] LONDON. | [black] FREDERICK WARNE & CO."; lower wrapper, inserted in a frame, publishers' advertisements for The Religious Tract Society: "Books for little children. | With coloured pictures and wood engravings. | One shilling each in fancy cover. | My pretty book: | containing an illustrated alphabet and first lessons for little children in spelling and reading. | My pretty verse-book: | an alphabet of verses. | My pretty story-book: | super-royal, 16mo. | My pretty lesson-book: | or, some first things for a child to know. | My pretty pets. | Book of Sunday pictures | for little children. | Old Testament. Coloured pictures and wood engravings. Extra boards, gilt, 3s. | Book of Sunday pictures | New Testament. Coloured pictures and wood engravings. Extra boards, gilt, 3s. | Children of the Bible. | With coloured engravings. 4to. Extra boards, gilt edges, 2s. | Child's book of poetry. | Original and selected. With engravings. 18mo. Cloth boards, 1s. 6d. | Little Frank at the farm. | With coloured pictures and wood engravings. Small 4to. Fancy cover, 2s. | The sweet story of Old. | With coloured pictures and wood engravings. Royal 16mo. Extra cloth boards, gilt edges, 2s. 6d. | Visit to aunt Agnes. | for very little children. Coloured engravings. Small 4to. Fancy cloth boards, 2s. [this last published in 1864]"; at foot, inside the frame: "London:–The Religious Tract Society: | 56, Paternoster Row; 65, St. Paul's Churchyard; and 164, Piccadilly."; at foot, outside the frame: "Kronheim and Co., London, Manchester, and Glasgow."
Variant B
[1867]: same upper wrapper as variant A, on yellow paper, with, at head, outside the decorated frame: "PRICE ONE SHILLING; OR, MOUNTED WITH LINEN, TWO SHILLINGS."; at foot, outside the frame, printers' caption: "KRONHEIM & CO., LONDON."; same lower wrapper as pcb1499, variant C; inside illustrations without printers' captions and reprinted replacing the black background with a resin-grain relief metal plate printed in blue
COPIES
BoL-OpC: Opie M 133 (not analysed)
BSU: PS653 .H57 (not analysed)
CUL: 146.1.14(1c) (not analysed)
CUL-WaC: Waddleton.b.9.1093 (described as wanting covers, containing first & last pages of text; colouring of plates differs; not analysed)
NAL: 60.Y Box VI (xix) (variant A: [1865]; lacking p. 1 of text and plate 2)
NAL-ReC: B.LB.WARN.CH.1865 (two copies: copy A: variant B: [1867], mounted on linen; copy B: possibly variant A: [1865], lacking several pages and lower wrapper)
NY-CUL: HISTCHIL Unclassified (not analysed)
NYPL: KH+ 1867 Childhoods 11-441 (not analysed)
UCLA: PZ6 .C43515 1865 (described as: "from coloured designs by F. J. Skill"; having "1/- or Mounted 2/-" at head of cover title; publisher's printed yellow stiff wrappers; illustration on first plate repeats on upper wrapper, with changes and variant coloring; publisher's advertisement for "Warne's nursery literature" on lower wrapper, including partial listing of first 99 titles in "Aunt Louisa's London toy books" series; ex libris Elvah Karshner; not analysed)
UFBL: 39p127 (not analysed)
USM-DeG: PZ8.3 .H93 1880 (described as: "Bound with: The wonderful adventures of Humpty Dumpty [Vol.2] / illustrated by Thos. Nast. New York : McLoughlin Bros. Publishers"; not analysed)
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Childhood's happy hours". In PiCoBoo, accessed November 14, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1505