A brief look (one part post) at children's books cover art from the Victorian era through to 1925. These are mostly hard-bound books that feature colour printing, embossing and gilding as well as applied lithographic colour printing: 1871 Better Than Rubies 1872 Bluff Crag or A Good Word Costs Nothing 1873 Rose and Kate or The Little Howards 1875 A Cruise in the Acorn 1877 Stories About Horses Compiled by T.B.S. 1877 The Peep Show With 300 Pictures 1878c Birds & their Nests by Mary Howitt 1880 The Raccoon J.B.Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia. 1880c Chatterbox Album of Animals 1881 In His Father's Arms 1882 Abroad Thomas Crane & Ellen Houghton cover illustration by Thomas Crane 1883 John Angelo at the Water Colour Exhibition Daniel Lothrop & Co., Boston, MA 1883 Perseus the Gorgon Slayer 1883 Some of my Feathered and Four-Footed Friends 1885c Childhood's Wonders 1886 The Favourite Nursery Series Little Jack Frost's Album 1886 The Golden Play Book Illustrated Frederick Warne & Co. London 1886 The Large Picture Primer 1888 Play Days Cassell & Company Limited, New York, London, Paris & Melbourne 1888 Edith Series Editha's Burglar 1889 Things will take a turn by Beatrice Harraden 1890 Three Fairy Princesses Marcus Ward & Co. Ltd. London, Belfast & New York 1891 Chitty Chatty Stories McLoughlin Bros. New York Red Line Series 1892 The Admiral's Caravan by Charles E. Carryl 1893 The Favourite Book of Nursery Tales With 72 full-page Coloured Pictures 1894 Favourite Tales for the Nursery Thomas Nelson & Son. London, Edinburgh & New York 1894 Gerty's Triumph 1894 Tales from Hans Andersen 1895 The Story of Rosina and other Verses by Austin Dobson Illustrated by Hugh Thomson 1896 Grimm's Household Stories Illustrated 1896 Mother Goose's Rhymes Jingles & Fairy Tales 1896 Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves 1896 Tales from Hans Andersen 1897 Fairy Tales from the Far North by P.C. Asbjönsen Translated by H. Brækstad 1897 Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There 1897c Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1898 A Bunch of Cherries by L.T. Meade 1898 An Almanac of Twelve Sports by William Nicholson with words by Rudyard Kipling 1898 Daddy Jake The Runaway and Other Stories by "Uncle Remus" Joel Chandler Harris 1898 Denise and Ned Toodles by Gabrielle F. Jackson 1898 The Boys of '98 by James Otis 1898 The Fairy Book by Miss Mulock 1898 The Giant Scissors by Annie Fellowes Johnson Cosy Corner Series 1905 Little Pickles 1907c Alice's Adventures in Wonderland 1910 Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates by Mary Mapes Dodge 1925 Pinocchio illustrated by Frederick Richardson n.d. Chatterbox Album of Animals n.d. Kiddie Record Song and Story Book Number Two cover by Clara M. Burd
