Old Mother Hubbard Songbooks - Specimens

Old Mother Hubbard Songbooks - Specimens(Adams, Frank) illustrator. OLD MOTHER HUBBARD. London; Glasgow: Blackie & Son Limited, [1936]. 4to 10 7 8" x 8 1 8". Beige cloth backed color pictorial paper covered boards with a full color drawing to front cover and a black and white drawing to back cover; light wear to the lower fore edge corner on the front cover and light scattered soiling for what is a very attractive copy of the book. [14] pp. including covers. The book is made up entirely of

Berta and Elmer Hader and the Golden Age of American Picture Books

This original pen and ink drawing by W

Steininger / with my compliments / A

full color

' sheet with light creasing to the corners and edges

with the slightest hint of rubbing to spine

These 32mo "toy books" were originally issued in delicate paper wrappers

October 1853 - December 1856

Collating [4] pp

The accompanying original text sheet and the portfolio housing are graded together as NEAR FINE on the standard antiquarian book grading scale

routine darkening to the spine panel and along the flap folds

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