Listed in the English catalogue, under Meiklejohn, at 5s., or the 2 pts. separately at 3s 6d. each, dated 1884-5; according to Massé and Osborne pt. 1 was published in 1884, pt. 2 in 1885.

Meiklejohn's 13-step "Method of Teaching the Golden Primer" on both front and rear endpapers within ornamental borders.

Text in brown with color illustrations on facing pages.

Illustrations: Preliminaries in brown; color t.p. with a pictorial scene of apple-picking children in blue, red, green and yellow, signed with Crane's glyph; and full-page, color wood engravings throughout, most signed with Crane's crane glyph.

Both covered in buff paper-covered boards, decorated with a "Part I" (on part 1) and "Part II" (on part 2) brown pictorial design of a boy climbing a ladder into an apple-tree on upper and lower covers, signed with Crane's glyph; white endpapers patterned with a sepia design; a.e.g.