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The Nursery Book [3rd Year]
This was the successor to Baby's Annual and for a few years became Nelson's main Annual for very young children. It was smaller than the The Chummy Book
or The Jolly Book
, which both contained 288 pages and 16 full-page colour illustrations. The second Nursery Book was like the first: it also contained four original double page drawings by Blampied. The second Nursery Book contained fewer pages than the first: 93 compared with 128 pages. The third Nursery Book contained fewer pages than the second: 88 pages. There were no more double page flat-colour drawings by Blampied, just two single page flat colour drawings facing each other by Blampied and other artists to sustain the same format.
This book has been seen with different covers but the same content. The two covers are shown below.
First edition
Bibliography code: NEL-23.1
Publisher: Thomas Nelson and Sons
Series: The Nursery Book [3rd year]
Year: [1923]
Format: 8vo
Pages: 88
Binding: version 1: printed boards backed with cream cloth; plain rear cover. Version 2: blue cloth with impressed title on front, pasted on colour picture (unsigned), title in black on spine.
Covers: neither cover is by Blampied
Dust jacket: not seen, but probably had one
Size: 283 x 229 mm
Price: 3 shillings 6 pence
Internal illustrations: page 9 is a line drawing derived from the colour frontispiece of At the Farm; pages 32 and 33 are single page flat colour drawings facing each other from The Zoo Book.
Source of illustrations: The Zoo Book, At the Farm.
Printing history: not stated
Printed by: Printed in Great Britain at the Press of the Publishers
Notes: My copy of the book with the upper cover shown left, has an inscription dated 'Xmas 1923'. The cover design for the second version is based on an unsigned colour plate reproduced on page 19.
One of two cover designs seen for this book (click to enlarge)
One of two cover designs seen for this book (click to enlarge)