Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig
Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig
$ 85.00

Book is a well age worn and much loved example. How you might expect a book made for children 150 years ago to look.

Published NY, c. 1865-75, McLoughlin Brothers. 14 pp. with seven full page color chromos [counting cardstock covers, likely lacking a leaf?], original string tied binding so inherently fragile.

Much browsed and handled survival, spine paper splitting as typical with early owner's neat hand sewing, covers detached and pages loosened, assorted small age soiling, short edge tears to some leaves, various signs of time and handling.

Images still mostly clean, still a nice old juvenile book.

The survival rate of 19th century paper juvenile books such as this is quite low in general, mostly 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 1/4“H x 7 1/4“W.

B15195