The Nursery Rhyme A B C Book : Containing The A B C of Animals and Birds, Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles, A B C of Heroes, The Children's Household Pets, Profusely Illustrated with Beautiful Pictures.

Cover title
The Nursery Rhyme ABC Book : Containing The ABC of Animals and Birds, Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles, ABC of Heroes, The Children's Household Pets, Profusely Illustrated with Beautiful Pictures.

London : Ward, Lock, and Co., [1877].

Play-Hour picture books : 1

5s.

Browne, Hablot Knight (Phiz) (illustrator)
Ward, Lock, & Co. (publisher)

Collective volume
Clothbound

Size
27x23 cm
Format and pagination
4° : 54 ll. : [6] leaves of text, [48] 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
Covers
Red cloth cover bound by William Greening
Upper cover stamped in black and gilt, unsigned, uniform for the series, illustrating on the four corners, in roundels, details from Simple Simon, Old Mother Hubbard, [unidentified nursery rhyme] and Sing a Song of Sixpence; below the two upper roundels, blank on black: "The | Play-Hour | Picture Books"; at centre, details from The Three [actually two] Blind Mice, Mother Goose, Hey Diddle Diddle and Jack the Giant-Killer; specific to this volume, in the panel on the right side of cover, details from The A B C of Heroes and, in the panel that serves as a background for the title, details from Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles; at centre, decorated title, black and gold: "The | Nursery Rhyme | A B C Book"
Spine, gilt: "The Nursery Rhyme A B C Book"
Back cover, blind stamped
Blank white endpapers
Illustrations
Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles has the same 6 illustrations as pcb734, one per page, printed on one side of the sheet only in red, yellow, pink, light blue and black
Illustrations used for pcb734 are printed in chromo-lithography instead of chromo-relief
Original designs are embedded in wider frames, modified so to continue the picture lines; albeit modified, the key, with some parts cut out, appear to be the same as the original one – or stereotyped from it –, while all the colours appear to be engraved anew
Source for date
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BL accession stamp

Chromo-lithography

Bookseller (September 4, 1877), 831: "Ward, Lock & Co.'s announcements. [...] New Series of Juvenile Books. – The Play-Hour Picture Books. Large 4to, handsomely printed in colours, cloth gilt, extra, 5s. 1. Nursery Rhymes A B C Book. 2. Little Folks' Beauty Pictures. 3. Little Tot's Pleasure Book. 4. Child's Own Picture Book of Animals. 5. The Nursery Friend. [...] London: Ward, Lock, & Co., Warwick House, Dorset Buildings, Salisbury Square, E.C."

BL: 12807.k.2. (accession stamp dated 26NO77; further publishers' advertisement printed on both sides on yellow paper, inserted: "Ward, Lock, & Co.'s | Humorous Books."; on lower paste down, binder's ticket: "W. Greening | Binder | 183 | Fleet Street"; same shelfmark for the whole series)
CUL: 1877.11.20 (described as "[24] leaves, [23] leaves of plates"; not in WorldCat; not analysed)
NLS: Ca.2.65 (previous shelfmark: Ca.2/2; stamped "Advocates Library Edinburgh"; on lower paste down, binder's ticket: "W. Greening | Binder | 183 | Fleet Street"; 4 registering marks, grey, on plate 4 of Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles (This Little Pig); no publishers' advertisement on yellow paper)

First published as
Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1865]
Has version/s
Nursery Rhymes and Rigmaroles. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [before 1870]
Has version/s
The A B C of Nursery Rhymes. - London : Ward, Lock, & Tyler, [1876]

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https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb971

Francesca Tancini, "The Nursery Rhyme A B C Book". In PiCoBoo, accessed April 21, 2026, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb971