Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book
Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book
$ 125.00

Original antique juvenile story book.

Tom Thumb.- Cinderella Series.

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

Much loved and handled survival, spine paper well split, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling.

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.

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