Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book
Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book Rip Van Winkle Peter the Goathead c.1854 Mcloughlin hc children’s picture book
$ 150.00

Original antique juvenile book.

Peter the Goathead- The Original Rip Van Winkle- and the Battle of Blenheim.

Published NY, John McLoughlin (Elton & Co.), c.1850-54. [24 pp.], 6 hand colored full page woodcut images. No rear cover. RVW story complete, unsure of second short Blenheim poem.

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.

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. 6 5/8" H x 5 1/8" W.

B15135

see Radiant With Color- McLoughlin Bros 1858-1920 (p. 60 noting Elton retired in 1854, explaining the variant cover and title page imprints).