Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book
Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Three Tiny Pigs Lovechild’s c.1855-65 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book
$ 135.00

Original antique juvenile story book.

Three Tiny Pigs.- Mama Lovechild's Series.

Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c.1855-65. 16 pp. [counting covers], 8 orig. hand colored woodcut images. The printed pages with blank versos.

Several leaves with long edge tears repaired long ago in reverse with old paper.

Much loved and handled survival, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling, spine paper splitting and with old paper tape used long ago.

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” 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. 10 3/4“H x. 6 3/4“W.

B15175