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Animal Frolics
(Merrimack Publishing Corporation, 1890)
Our Version of the Antique appears on the back cover. I have a copy of the antique, done by McLoughlin Brothers. See my comments there, under 1890? This facsimile follows the original version scrupulously, right down ...
My Book of Fables
(Edward Arnold, 1895)
The 108 fables here seem pretty dull to me. The morals are simple. A random sample suggests that Croxall lies somewhere behind these texts but is not a verbatim source. There are frequent rectangular engravings; the ...
Animal Frolics
(McLoughlin Brothers, 1890)
A surprising find. Mother and I went to a craft show on the fair grounds. I finished early and invaded the antique fair next door. I have looked through thousands of books shown by antique dealers. I rarely find ...
Little Bo-Peep
(M.A. Donohue & Co., 1895)
Here is another Donohue surprise-a book, like Jack and Jill (1895?) that contains only the title-story and fables. This book has the same cover border, the same back cover, and the same Mother Goose endpapers as that book. ...
Jack and Jill
(M.A. Donohue & Co., 1895)
This book represents a great find on a lightning shopping visit over the lunch break of a Jesuit meeting. The book is in terrible condition, with virtually no spine left at all and all the pages loose. This curious book ...