Summary: | "Poems with pictures. Title, imprint statement, and series transcribed from p. [1] of wrapper. Series transposed from head of wrapper. Probably a pirated edition of a title issued by Frederick Warne and Company. Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper, includes Over the hills "with designs by Miss Ida Waugh." Over the hills was copyrighted by McLoughlin Bros. in 1882. Several other works mentioned in advertisement were listed as "New stock for the seasons of 1882 and 1883" in the McLoughlin Bros. catalogue for that year, including The cruise of the walnut shell, Hans Thumbling, Pantomime toy books, and Greenaway Mother Goose. Wrapper printed in red, green, yellow, and black ink. Illustrations chromolithographed."
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