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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Pictures To Paint Both Pretty And Quaint / 1885 |
| Date | 1885 |
| Record ID | 517684 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Competitors |
| Reference | McL-CompB056 |
| Theme | Leisure and Play |
| Library of Congress Subject | Picture books for children Children's poetry Cats Horses May Day Swimming Country life Children's accidents Drowning Swine Geese Fishes Tobacco Seasons |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse |
| Publisher | Thomson, Peter Gibson (1851-1931) |
| Places | Cincinnati |
| Document Type | Picture Book |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1884 Poems--1884 Publishers' advertisements--Ohio--Cincinnati Coloring books--1884 Color printing (Printing) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Printed wrappers (Binding) Hand-colored illustrations Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) |
| Size | [34] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 25 cm |
| Catalog Notes | Pictures with poetry on facing pages. Illustrations depict children drawn in the style of Kate Greenaway. Cover title. Peter G. Thomson was active as a printer, publisher, and bookseller in Cincinnati from 1877 until 1889. See Walter Sutton, The western book trade, (1961), p. 339. One copy in hand has an inscription dated 1884. Cover printed in color by a relief process (zinc etching). Text and illustrations printed sepia ink. Last page blank; pasted to cover. "New pictures to paint. ... Pictures to paint. Consisting of 30 pages of outline illustrations, adapted for coloring, with rhymes. Price, 15 cents."--publisher's advertisement, back cover. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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