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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, and Other Rhymes, [printed on] Linen

New York, New York: McLoughlin Bros. 1897. Beautifully printed on linen, this children's book by McLoughlin features four (4) full-page chromolithographed illustrations, as well as several smaller in-text illustrations on linen, as accompaniment for a plethora of short nursery rhymes. Very scarce.

Small folio (10.5" by 7"), pp. [10], stapled in original illustrated stock wrappers with young girl against a pastoral setting on upper wrapper, and a smaller illustration of the same girl on lower wrapper. Contemporary ink ownership inscription of Margery Bargen (?) to upper wrapper.

3 copies on OCLC only (June 2022). Some light toning and dust soiling; worn.

Price: $150.00

Item #21008092