Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book
Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Children in Wood death violence c.1860 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book
$ 150.00

Original antique juvenile book.

The Affecting History of the Children in the Wood. (Sword fighting, death in childhood).

Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c.1855-65. [12 pp. counting covers], 8 hand colored woodcut images.

Much loved and handled survival, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling, spine long ago thread hand stitched.

Images still mostly clean.

Small neat archival tape repair to short front cover edge split (easy to overlook, miss or forgive now). Rear cover is an early home-made replacement using wall paper.

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”, 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, meaning survival rates probably below 100 per title, with variations of course depending upon factors such as size, title, orig. price, etc.

Therefore, all examples 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. 7 3/4" h x 4 7/8" W.

B15137