Horses, Warne’s Large Picture Toy Books
London: Frederick Warne and Co., No date [c.1860s]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 8vo; [6] leaves; stiff lavender pictorial wrapper printed in blue and red, a horse with harness reins featured on the front; the rear wrapper contains publisher’s ads for Warne’s Nursery Literature; string binding; 8 color plates with titles including on the verso of the front and recto of the rear wrapper; 2” split to foot of folded spine, ½” closed tear to free edge of front wrapper, hand soiling; very good. Located 3 in OCLC, at Hofstra University, University of Chicago and University of Cambridge, England. Very good. Item #1363
Lovely picture book featuring 8 chromolithographed plates of horses titled: Hunter, Shetland Pony, Dray Horse, Race Horse, Hack Horse, Carriage Horse, Young Horses and Ponies and Cart Horse.
Price: $85.00