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(MOTHER GOOSE.)
The Old Fashioned Mother Goose’ Melodies
Complete with Magic Colored Pictures.
45 color lithograph plates by WLS[heppard],
all on rectos with verses on opposing versos, each plate with additional half-plate which
result in action when turned. Small 4to, original pictorial blue cloth stamped in black and
gilt, fine; contents with soft vertical creasing due to format, early leaves with tiny nick to
top blank margin, otherwise contents clean and free from any markings.
A SUPERB COPY
,
CERTAINLY AMONG THE FINEST EXTANT
.
(N.Y.): G.W. Carleton, 1879
[500/750]
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[NURSERY RHYMES.] Stephens, Henry Louis.
Group of six Proof Copies.
Illustrated, after designs by Stephens. Includes lithographed titles on pink grounds with
large circular vignette illustrations and decorative gold borders in each, plus a total of 86
leaves printed on rectos only, each with a
full-page gray-tinted mounted lithograph,
on card. Large 4to, publisher’s brown cloth,
gilt stamped central device repeated on
front and rear covers within blind rules, all
edges gilt, fraying to spine tips and corners,
few stray marks; occasional foxing, heaviest
to tissue guards. Comprises:
A Frog He
Would Awooing Go * Death and
Burial of Poor Cock Robin * Old
Mother Hubbard * The Fox and the
Geese * The Five Little Pigs * The
House That Jack Built.
NewYork: Julius Bien
for Hurd & Houghton, 1864; 1865
[400/600]
LIMITED EDITION
“
PROOF IMPRESSIONS
,”
EACH LIMITED TO
100
COPIES
printed for
subscribers according to the printed limitation
statement on the verso of each title-page, in the rare
original issue (not the later 2-volume compilation).