Domestic Animals.

London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1866].

[London] : Edmund Evans.
[London] : [Dalziel Brothers].

Aunt Friendly's Coloured Picture Books : 5

3d.

Dalziel Brothers (engraver)
Evans, Edmund (engraver and printer)
Frederick Warne & Co. (publisher)

Toy book

Size
19,5x14 cm
Format and pagination
16° : 12 pp. : [4] pp. text, [6] pp. pls : col. ill.
Signatures
A⁶
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A3.4)
Covers
Same up. wpr as pcb1589; specific for this title, at centre, inserted in a decorated roundel, vignette with two children playing with animals; inserted in a decorated panel, red, title, black: 'Domestic Animals'
Low. wpr ptd (black); on low. wpr, inside the frame, publishers' advts: 'Warne's Eighteenpenny Juveniles. | Pott 18mo, with Original Ilustrations, cloth extra. | Truth and Falsehood. By the Author of The Little | Drummer. | Tales from Dreamland. By the Author of The Seven | Little People. | Patient Henry: a Tale for Boys. | Tales for the Young. By Hand Christian Andersen. | Allen and Harry; or, Set About it at Once. | An Autumn at Karnford; or, Country Life. | Georgie and Lizzie; or, Self-Denial. | Douglas Family (The); or, Friendship in Childhood. | Arnold Lee; or, Rich and Poor Children. | Warne's Two-Shilling Gift Books. | Fcap. 8vo, with Original Illustrations, cloth gilt. | Evenings at Home. By Dr. Aiken and Mrs. Barbauld. | Day's Sandford and Merton. With gilt edges. | Poetry of the Best Authors. by Anne Bowman. | How to Be Happy; or, Every-Day Work. By Catherine | D. Bell. | Sundays at Encombe. By the Rev. H.C. Adams. | Mary Elliot; or, Kindness of Heart. By Catherine D. Bell. | Louie Atterbury: a Book for Girls. | London: Fred.k Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden. | Edmund Evans, Engraver and Printer, Raquet Court, Fleet Street.'
Illustrations
6 ills, one per page, ptd (red, yellow, brown, blue, black)
Source for attribution
Proofs in Dalziel Archive
Source for date
Advts
List of titles on low. wpr and ep

First and last l. pasted to up. and low. wpr and included in pagination
Title and publication information from up. wpr, which serves as tp, and from publishers' advts on low. wpr

Chromo-relief

Bookseller (31 Oct. 1866), 965: see pcb1046
Athenaeum (29 Dec. 1866), 878: see pcb1589

Variant (1)
Orange wpr
Variant (2)
Pink wpr

BL: 12808.de.1. (variant (1); accession stamp dated 16AP68; single title not described (series description and shelfmark))
CUL: 1868.7.257 (n.a.)

Marie-Louise Fredyma's Antique Shop (variant (2))

Documents
BM: 1913.0415.182 (6 proofs ptd (black) in Dalziel Archive)

Included in
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours with Letter-Press Descriptions. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Co., [1867]
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours, with Letter-Press Descriptions. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Co., [ca. 1871]
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Nursery Gift Book : Containing Thirty-Six Pages of Pictures ... with Letter-Press Descriptions / printed in colours by Dalziel Brothers. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [ante 1871]
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours, with Letter-Press Descriptions. - London ; New York : Frederick Warne & Co. ; Scribner, Welford and Armstrong, [ante 1877]
Reissued as
Domestic Animals. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1880]
Included in
Aunt Friendly's Gift : Containing Seventy-Two Pages of Pictures, Printed in Colours, with Letterpress Descriptions. - London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1890s]

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Francesca Tancini, "Domestic Animals". In PiCoBoo, accessed October 10, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb1604