[Rarebooks] OFFER: FULTON FISH MARKET IN 1831, FOR CHILDREN.

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ANON. (Mahlon Day?) SUSAN AND EDWARD; A VISIT TO THE FULTON MARKET. 
[Six lines of verse] New York: Printed and sold by Mahlon Day at the 
New Juvenile Bookstore, No. 376, Pearl Street. [between 1831 and 
1833?]: 16 Pp. : ill. ; 90 mm  YUS,[Yale] BEINECKE, SHIRLEY 5411. Not 
at AAS. OCLC finds 3 Locs. Yale, Ct. Hist. And UCLA. This is an 
original American text about shopping in New York's Fulton Fish 
Market, which in the 1830s also sold other things. The title vignette 
show the children, the boy carrying packages, with the mother also 
laden, and a man carrying something heavy over his shoulder. His 
sister is behind him and it cannot be seen what she has. In the text, 
however, going to the market, it is noted that she too, has a basket. 
The second cut show the three of them on their way to the market. The 
cuts are all of the foods they might buy, beginning with four of sea 
creatures. On the verso of the title page, Day has placed a history 
of  the New York "Market Houses" including Fulton, for his adult 
readers which is dated 1831. This copy is lacking its front wrapper, 
and has been neatly oversewn, Ow Good. $225.00

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