Goody Two Shoes Yellow Dwarf series 1869 McLoughlin color litho picture book

Preliminary Listing w/abbreviated description. Complete description coming soon. Pictures capture the item very well and should be prioritized for evaluating the item for purchase.

Poor condition- Cover with closed tears and edge chips, covers and pages loose, rear cover detached, spine stitched with thread long ago.

Published NY, 1869.

pp. [counting covers], orig. color lithographed woodcut images.

An early McLoughlin imprint.

Nice example overall with excellent eye appeal.

covers and pages somewhat loosened (as typical) and lightly rubbed, assorted small age spotting or soiling, signs of handling, etc.

Nicer than 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 then Golden Age on.

Images still mostly clean. 

The survival rate of 19th century color paper juvenile books such as this is very low, a minuscule percentage (almost certainly under 10% in most cases, probably 1-5% of half of all those originally produced. Some issues scattered all over the place in publishing history may all but no longer exist as copies.

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 color juvenile books should be considered inherently scarce and worthy of acquisition on some level, their actual comparative rarity being mostly invisible to the uninformed observer.

Book measures c. “ H x “W.

B151**