Butterfly’s Ball & Grasshopper’s Feast c1860 Dean & Son hand color juvenile book Political published in the year after

published in the year after his death

Cover art by James Montgomery Flagg

(Ferguson's Lectures on Mechanics)

Rare early American children's book

Butterfly’s Ball & Grasshopper’s Feast c1860 Dean & Son hand color juvenile book Political published in the year afterButterflys Ball and Grasshoppers Feast. Issued c. 1850 60s, London by Dean & Son. 12 pp. counting covers, thread sewn spine, six hand colored (orig.) woodcut images, untrimmed as when first issued. Remarkably clean and fresh survival. The survival rate of 19th century color paper juvenile books such as this is very low, a minuscule percentage (almost certainly under 10% in most cases, probably 1 5% of half of all those originally produced). Some