Good boys.

London : Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge, [1858].

[London] : Edmund Evans.

Routledge's one shilling toy and funny books : 11

1s.

Bolton, Thomas (engraver)
Dalziel, Edward (engraver)
Evans, Edmund (printer)
Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge (publisher)
Weir, Harrison (illustrator)

Toy book

Size
21,5x17 cm
Source for attribution
Signature
Source for date
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of December, 1858, as no. 11 of Routledge’s one shilling toy books & funny books (13 titles)
Not included in Routledge’s new sixpenny toy books series

The publishers' caption "Routledge, Warnes, and Routledge" was in use between November 1858, when Robert Warne Routeldge entered into partnership, and May 1859, when William Henry Warne died
This publication reproduces half of the illustrations published by Sampson Low in 1857 under the title Happy days of childhood
Title and publication information from front cover, which serves as title page, and from back cover publishers' advertisements

Chromo-relief

AAS: 509405 (erroneously described as hand-coloured; gift of Herbert H. Hosmer, 1978; analysed through digital reproductions)
BL: 12807.e.41. (described as: "London : Routledge, Warnes & Routledge, [1859]"; accession stamp dated 4JA59; not analysed)

First published as
Happy days of childhood / by Amy Meadows ; illustrated with twenty-four pictures by Harrison Weir, and a frontispiece by Birket Foster. - London : Sampson Low, Son, and Co., 1857
Reissued as
Good boys. - London : Routledge, Warne, and Routledge, [1859]

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https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3247

Francesca Tancini, "Good boys". In PiCoBoo, accessed April 21, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb3247