Emma & Mary Dolls Naughty Sam c.1860 McLoughlin hand color juvenile picture book

Original antique juvenile story book.

Naughty Girls- Aunt Oddamadodd’s series.

Published NY, McLoughlin Bros. 12 pp. [counting covers], 6 orig. hand colored woodcut images.

Poor condition, (possibly lacking 1 or 2 leaves). As found condition, uncommon title in any condition. Rear cover torn across with edge loss to text, most pages with short edge splits, soiling from small hands. Exactly how you’d expect a paper book made for a young child to look after many years of actual use.

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

Much loved and handled survivals, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling, spine paper splitting so leaves loosened.

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. 6 3/4“H x. 5 3/8“W.

B15174