Babyland Holiday issue 1883 Illustrated juvenile magazine Christmas blocks & toy

(Old Magazines 19th Century Periodicals, Juvenile Magazines, Babyland, Illustrated Magazines, Vintage Advertising, Americana, Christmas).

Babyland - Holiday Number.
Published January 1883, Boston by D. Lothrop & Co. Editors of Wide Awake.
16 pages plus nice assortment of dated advertising often illustrated. Text in English. Illustrated throughout. 

Nice children's magazine with pleasing visual content. Color lithographed cover, advertising at front and rear.

Binding remains clean, tight, and sound, bottom edge of issue is chipped with a couple short closed tears, some edge splits, various mostly small signs of age, time and handling, nothing offensive or major. Overall a nice looking example. A random survival of a loose magazine intended for children, rare in any condition.

Small age flaws or defects include possible random old creasing, edge chipping, small light old staining, etc. Overall entirely acceptable example of what is likely a scarce survival. The pictures give a very good sense of how the item survives.

Virtually all periodicals of this era are somewhat scarce today as loose complete issues. Like most random survivals of old periodical printing, any specific example (like this one) is likely among a relative handful still extant. As each decade goes back from 1950, the rate of scarcity for any specific magazine or paper item increases noticeably.

Text block remains overall clean, and displays a pleasing age patina.

Magazine remains attractive on the shelf. It displays a pleasing and unique age patina and is in nice antiquarian condition, any age flaws easy to overlook or forgive. 

Please review photos for more detail and our best attempt to convey how this antique item survives. This item is not new- it is old and has been handled by different owners in the past.

Magazine Measures c. 9 1/2" H x 8" W.

[B7916].