Miss Mouser’s Cat Tea party c1860’s McLoughlin chromolithography juvenile book Northern Italy Letchworth Park

Letchworth Park

mostly filled with students

text set within wood engraved decorative border

printing method and ink finishing used makes for delightful visual inspection

Miss Mouser’s Cat Tea party c1860’s McLoughlin chromolithography juvenile book Northern Italy Letchworth ParkMiss Mouses Tea Party. (anthropomorphic cats). Published NY, John McLoughlin c. 1869. 16 pp. counting covers, full page chromolithographs. Accumulation of assorted defects such as edge tears to most pages, soiling, spine paper split with old thread repair, strong edge chipping, old tape, signs of thumbing, etc. This is what a much loved and well read handled 19th century juvenile looks like. The survival rate of 19th century color paper juvenile books