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    • Published by McLoughlin Brothers Co, Springfield, Mass, 1927

      • Hardcover
      • First Edition

      Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.Babylon Revisited Rare Books

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      First Edition. Small format shape book, original illustrated boards featuring a young girl under an umbrella. Very Good plus copy, moderate spine edge wear.

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      Published by No Publisher [McLoughlin Bros.?], No Place [New York?], 1894

      • Softcover

      Seller: Thompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB, Hornby Island, BC, CanadaThompson Rare Books - ABAC / ILAB

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      Small octavo, 180 x 120 mm, original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & with 4 full-page plates in full colour chromolithography. A shape book, the book is shaped so that the head and fore-edge margins are curved along the image of the tree branches. Trifling rubbing, light wear along spine panel, a near fine copy of this beautiful Victorian Children's Book. Gorgeously illustrated. Uncommon, if not just plain rare. In verse, with pictures. The Title is transcribed from the upper cover. Caption title: The Tea-party. Date and publisher attribution is from a copy of "McLoughlin Bros. Confidential price-list and telegraph code, Season 1894-95" held at the American Antiquarian Society. That copy - which belonged to McLoughlin Bros. Vice President Charles E. Miller - has a handwritten note which states: "Artless. 35. Tea party [series, shape, 4 kds.] 3.50 [per gross]"-- - WorldCat lists but 3 copies held in Libraries worldwide (UBC, NYPL, AAS).