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Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1
Written And Compiled By E.W. Cole (1832-1918)
First Published 1879 By Cole Publications, Melbourne, Australia.
73rd Edition Totalling 920,000 copies. [*]
Front Cover.
COLE'S Funny Picture Book No. 1
Or Family Amuser And Instructor;
To Delight The Children And Make Home Happier;
The Best Child's Picture Book In All The World.
It Contains Also Choice Riddles, Games
and pieces of reading for Adults.
Look through it yourself.
Long ago the Rainbow was a Sign it is said,
Now 'tis the Sign of Cole's Book Arcade.
So, when in the sky a bow is displayed,
Be sure that you think of the Book Arcade.
Cole's Book Arcade strange as it looks,
Contains more than a million books.
New and second-hand, common and rare,
Can get most any book you want there.
[*] BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: The reprintings of this book since
Cole's death in 1918 have involved very few changes, and in most cases it has been bibliographically misleading to term them
"editions". Undoubtedly, somewhere in the past, the distinction between a "printing" and an "edition" has not been understood.
However, with due cognisance of the irregularity, the practice of giving each reprint a new edition number accompanied by a running sales total is being maintained for statistical interest.
Portrait of E. W. Cole.
Edward William Cole
Born Woodchurch, Kent, England
4th January, 1832
Died Essendon, Victoria, Australia
16th December, 1918
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