Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Poster Stamps New Haven by John Babcock

New Haven by John Babcock & Sons

22 7/8" H x  15 1/4" W

pair remains overall clean and attractive as a fragile survival

Chicago by Montgomery Ward

Boy who played with Fire c.1860-70’s early hand color children’s picture book Poster Stamps New Haven by John BabcockOriginal antique juvenile story book. The Boy who played with Fire. Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c. 1855 70's. 12 pp. [counting covers], 10 orig. hand colored woodcut images. Much loved and handled survivals, spine paper split w covers detached, edge chipping, well worn with edge splits, assorted small light age soiling, signs of handling, etc. Pretty much as you might expect for fragile juvenile paper booklets from the middle of the 19th