Mother Goose carrier pigeons excess Pride Turkeys 1869 McLoughlin juvenile book

King Gobble's Feast or the Effects of Pride.

Published NY, John McLoughlin, 1869.

16 pp. counting covers.

Paper spine crease has split, rendering both covers detached, edge chipping, pages loose.

Poor physical condition, but all images clean. Light small age staining to text on a couple leaves.

Covers with corner loss or creasing, scattered light or small old staining, nothing offensive.

This is what a much loved and well read/ handled 19th century juvenile looks like.

The survival rate of 19th century color paper juvenile books such as this is very low, a minuscule percentage (almost certainly under 10% in most cases, probably 1-5% of half of all those originally produced). Some issues scattered all over the place in publishing history may all but no longer exist as copies.

So even if “a lot” were 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 color juvenile books should be considered inherently scarce and worthy of acquisition on some level, their actual comparative rarity being mostly invisible to the casual observer.

Please inspect pics carefully!

Books each measures c. 9 1/8" H x 5 7/8" W.

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