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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Nursery Fun / c.1862-1864 |
| Date | c.1862-1864 |
| Record ID | 546555 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB134 |
| Theme | Leisure and Play |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Wit and humor Juvenile Female impersonators Overweight persons Irish Corporal punishment Sailors Single women Street vendors Play Soldiers Animals Clowns Puppets Beauty Personal |
| Genre | Pictorial Works |
| Publisher | Fisher & Brother |
| Places | Philadelphia |
| Document Type | Picture Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1862 Caricatures Publishers' advertisements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Publishers' advertisements--Maryland--Baltimore Color printing (Printing) Printed wrappers (Binding) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Relief prints Hand colored illustrations Publishers' copies (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm |
| Catalog Notes | Assortment of wood engraved illustrations with one line captions. Cover title. "Fisher & Brother ... (12 N. Sixth Street, Philadelphia, and 64 Baltimore Street, Baltimore.) ..."--p. [4] of wrapper. Fisher & Brother was located at 12 N. Sixth St., Philadelphia between 1862 and 1868, and at 64 Baltimore St., Baltimore between 1855 and 1864. Pagination: [1], 1-14, [1]; even-numbered rectos. First and last page blank; pasted to wrapper. Wrapper printed in red, green and black ink. Wood engravings hand-colored under the direction of the publisher. "Home picture books, profusely illustrated, and painted in all the colors of the rainbow. Royal ocatvo, 6 kinds, 2 of each kind in the dozen, 16 pages each, printed and splendidly colored. No blank pages. A paragon series of the largest toy books published in the world. ... Nursery fun: the little folks' picture book. ..."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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