Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book
Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book Sailor Boy McLoughlin hand color c.1860 early rate children’s picture book
$ 175.00

Original antique juvenile book.

Dame Wonder's Picture Books- The Sailor Boy (Nautical- Sea Life).

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

Original spine thread holding juvenile booklet together.

Images still mostly clean. Overall a pretty nice example, just minor light age spotting and signs of time.

The survival rate of mid-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.

Measures c. 7 5/8" H x 4 5/8" W.

B15139