LONDON: No date [circa 1850. Salesman’s sample book for Thos. Dean and Son. THE PLEASANT VERSE & PROSE COLd PICTURE STORY BOOK. Edited by Mrs. C. Butler. Being series the third of the Cold Nursery Picture Every Day Book. London. Thos Dean & Son., Threadneedle Street. No date [circa 1850]. Hand-coloured frontispiece; hand-coloured pictorial title-page and two other full-page hand-coloured engravings; and two pages of text, being pages 8 & 21. Original blind-stamped green cloth, with a gilt title to the front board: The Pleasant Verse and Prose Story Book, and to the rear board: The Pleasant Story Book. 178 x 138 mm. Inscribed in ink on the front pastedown: ‘New Cold 1/6 Childrens Books Trade 13 at 12 at 1/1 4 different. A fine example.