Aladdin of China & Wonderful Lamp 1856 early hand color children’s picture book
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Original antique juvenile story book.
Aladin and his wonderful Lamp.
Published NY, John McLoughlin, 1856. 16 pp. [counting covers], 8 orig. hand colored woodcut images. An early McLoughlin, prior to the brothers joining imprint.
Much loved and handled survivals, spine paper split and long ago neatly hand stitched with thread, edge chipping, some old tape along spine of one, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling, etc. Pretty much as you might expect for fragile juvenile paper booklets from the middle of the 19th century, so over 150 years old. Precursor to modern comic books of the 1930's and Golden Age on.
Images still mostly clean.
Some old cello tape edge repairs on two leaves page edges well thumbed from browsing.
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 1/2" H x 6 3/4" W.
B1516*