Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book
Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book
$ 150.00

Original antique juvenile story book.

The Boy who played with Fire.

Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c.1855-70's. 12 pp. [counting covers], 10 orig. hand colored woodcut images.

Much loved and handled survivals, spine paper split w/ covers detached, edge chipping, well worn with edge splits, assorted small light age soiling, signs of handling, etc. Pretty much as you might expect for fragile juvenile paper booklets from the middle of the 19th century, so over 150 years old. Precursor to modern comic books of the 1930's and Golden Age on.

Images still mostly clean, page edges well thumbed from browsing.

The survival rate of 19th century paper juvenile books such as this is very low, a minuscule percentage of those originally produced.

So even if it were “a lot” made then, it would still be very modest by most modern standards of production.

Meaning the actual sales run of hand made books like this would have to be measured in low thousands, thus meaning survival rates probably below 100 -200 per title, with variations of course depending upon factors such as size, title, orig. price, condition, etc.

Therefore, all surviving examples of 19th century hand colored juveniles should be considered inherently scarce and worthy of acquisition on some level, given their actual comparative rarity, which is mostly invisible to the uninformed observer.

Book measures c. 9 1/2" H x 6 7/8" W.

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