Size19,5x14 cm
Format and pagination16° : 12 pp. : 4 pages of text, [6] pages of plates : col. ill.
SignaturesA6Signatures note1 gathering, sewn (binding thread between A3.4)
CoversSame upper wrapper as
pcb1619, printed in red, yellow and the black key on blue paper; specific for this title, at centre, inserted in a decorated panel, outlined in blue, title: "Jack and the Bean Stalk"
Lower wrapper printed in black on blue paper; on lower wrapper, inside the frame, publishers' advertisements: "Warne's Nursery Literature. | Aunt Friendly's Toy Books. | In imperial 16mo., Threepence each, picture covers, each containing Six large Plates printed | in Six colours; or, on Linen, Sixpence each. | A Completely New Series of Nursery Favourites, | In the Best style of Colour Printing, from Original Designs, by first-class Artists. | [two column, first] First Series, Comprising | Red Riding-Hood. | Little Totty. | Cinderella. | Royal Alphabet. | The House that Jack Built. | A, Apple Pie. | Domestic Animals. | Nursery Songs. | Nursery Ditties. | Mother Hubbard. | Cock Robin. | Nursery Rhymes. | [second] Second Series, Comprising | The Frog Who Would A Wooing Go. | The Three Little Pigs. | Sing-a-Sing of Sixpence. | The Ugly Duckling. | Puss in Boots | Dame Trot and Her Cat. | The Old Woman and Her Pig. | Tom Thumb. | The Three Bears. | Jack and the Bean Stalk. | Diamonds and Toads. | Hop o' My Thumb. | What has been done by Aunt Louisa's Toy Books at 1
s., and Warne's | Large Picture Toys at 6
d. each, has, with greater perfection that in either of | these now celebrated Series, been accomplished in these Threepenny Books – viz., | making them the very Best and Cheapest Nursery Books ever published. | Alphabets, Spelling Boks, &c. | In demy 8vo., price 1
s., cloth, gilt lettering. | The Victoria Picture Spelling Book. Compiled and edited by L.V., with Three | Hundred and Eighty-four Illustrations. | Demy 8vo., price 1
s., cloth cover. | Everlasting Victoria Primer. One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations printed | on fine linen. | Price 1
s., on cards, in wrapper. | The Alexandra Alphabet. In Letters of Gold, with Coloured Pictures; and Little Words for Little Learners. | Frederick Warne & Co., Bedford Street, Covent Garden."
Illustrations6 illustrations, one per page, unsigned, printed in red, yellow, brown, blue, brown and the black key block by Kronheim & Co.
Source for dateList of titles on lower wrapper and endpapers