[Rarebooks] OFFER: FOLK STYLE LITHOGRAPHIC AMERICAN JUVENILE

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ANON. THE CHILD'S PICTORIAL MUSIC BOOK. : E. B. & E. C. Kellogg,, 
Hartford, Conn. & Berea, Ohio:, 1841. First Edition. 12mo, cloth 
spine, lithographed pictorial stiff wrappers, [24] leaves, printed on 
facing leaves (with blank versos), 15 cm.  The first 20 leaves are 
all illustrated with a finely executed nearly full page lithograph, 
drawn in folk style. The lower portion of each page contains a 
measure of music and a description of a musical term. At the end are 
four leaves of lithographed music: "Hymn of Prayer," "Little Sister," 
"Sweet Goldfinch," and "Pretty Bee". OCLC locates 7 copies of the 
1841 edition [UCLA, Claremont College, Library of Congress, Ct. 
College, Dartmouth [has only 16 pages], Trinity College. OCLC also 
notes 4 Locs. for the 1842 issue, 2 of which are imperfect, no copies 
are noted of any other Edition. This was one of a series of books for 
children on various school subjects and includes one on morality as 
expressed in behavior. They are all illustrated with excellent 
lithographs drawn in the same folky manner. The artist is anonymous, 
but may have been one of the partners. The Kelloggs were competitors 
of Currier & Ives as printmakers, from whom they pirated a number of 
designs. They also produced original designs, which were similarly 
pirated by other American firms. They are the only important American 
lithographer to produce a childrens' series. Children loved the books 
of this series and it is typical to find a copy with flaws, such as, 
food stains, tears, missing plates. This copy, with the original 
boards and cloth spine, showing some wear at the corners and a little 
soiling to the covers, immaculate within, is an unusually fine and 
unsophisticated copy. $1250.00

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