Cock Robin: Silhouette Series
New-York: R. Shugg, nd., ca. 1880. Wraps. Very good. Item #17984
5½ by 6½ inches. 24 pages. Each set shows an illustration in silhouette on the right with the text facing. Cock Robin is followed by 'Robin and Richard', 'Jack Sprat' and 'See, Saw Margery Daw'. Each of the three subsequent rhymes are one page with a facing illustration. Yellow wrappers printed in red and black. The first and last pages pasted to the cover as issued. Publisher's advertisement on the pack cover. With "Silhouette Series" on the front wrapper. Wrappers soiled and spine neatly mended with tissue, else this is in very good condition, and a remarkable survival for such a fragile item. Rare. Not in Osborne, not in Cotsen; only one copy located in OCLC at Yale.
Price: $450.00