Hardback. Red cloth bound book. No spine. Front-board, embossed decoration and gilt lettering, chipped, frayed, rubbed, shelf-worn. Backboard, embossed decoration, chipped, frayed, rubbed, shelf-worn. All edges are torn. Used poor condition. Paste-down is very marked and scuffed. Back paste-down is very marked and scuffed, end-paper loose with a inscription by a previous owner. End-paper and title page missing also colour plate. First page has inscription by a previous owner. A number of pages are loose, torn and stained. Un-paginated. Publisher: London Warne and Co, 1870-85. A mid nineteenth century children\'s book, with two stories and two stories in rhyme, and some splendid full page chromolithographs. Some of the content is rather gruesome by modern standards:The maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes;By came a jackdaw,And snaps off her nose.They sent for the King\'s doctor,who sewed it on again,He sewed it on so neatly, the seam was never see;And the jackdaw for his naughtiness deservedly was slain.And one of the stories has a Christmas setting, \'Sing a Song o\' Sixpence\', \'The Robin\'s Christmas Eve\', \'Robin Hood & his Merry Men\' and \'The Sea Side\',