Little Folks Colored Picture Book/ 1875

This beautiful antiquarian book contains stories and poems for children, with a focus on rich, full-page chromolithographs. These color illustrations, all 16 full page as called for in this volume, were a major selling point and represented a significant advancement in printing at the time. The book often featured a chromolithographic pastedown on the cover which this copy does. The book is an example of the kind of high-quality, color-illustrated juvenile literature that McLoughlin Brothers produced. They played a crucial role in popularizing children's books with color illustrations in the United States and often published "pirate" editions of popular British works by illustrators like Kate Greenaway and Randolph Caldecott.

This well preserved complete children's First Edition illustrated book, LITTLE FOLKS COLORED PICTURE BOOK is published by McLoughlin Brothers, New York, NY in 1875 (nd). Thirty-six children's stories, mostly in rhyme along with the 16 full-page chromolithograph's highlight the humorous antics and misbehaviors of the children in these stories. Original blue cloth binding lettered in gilt on front cover and spine covering along with a colorful chromolithographic color paste-on of Mary and Her Little Lamb, which is also one of the short stories in this book. Boards with scraping to corner tips, spine ends and light edge wear. Brown blank end pages and handwritten gift inscription in pencil dated Dec. 25, 1876 to first blank flyleaf. Text block straight and square and there are no loose, torn or missing pages and binding is firm. Very light foxing to prelims and some pages with minor soiling and light offsetting to pages opposite illustrations. Verso of illustrated pages blank.

Measures 10 1/2" X 7 1/2" and unpaginated ( no page numbers). Free shipping and insurance via USPS medial mail.