Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Boston Harbor compartments gilt stamped with devices

compartments gilt stamped with devices

Large detailed inset of District of Columbia with a 12 line key

A profusion of plates throughout

Issued 1786

Guide to the Caucasus

Nursery Songs Grandmother Goose c.1870’s McLoughlin color litho picture book pig Boston Harbor compartments gilt stamped with devicesBook 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,