Young Folks' Drawing Books
Boston: Billings Clapp & Co., 1884. Wraps. 18 unnumbered pages. 16 x 12 cm. Large folded advert for Nicol's Sarsaparilla with Iodode Of Lime at rear. A contemporary, perhaps scurrilous attempt to sell medicine to families via a purported children's book. Interior with blank checkerboard spaces opposite a drawing within the squares that a child can copy to the accompanying blank. Front and back covers are chromolithographs. Drawing with advertising message on grid, facing pages with plain grids. OCLC: 177708141. "The publishers manufactured Nichols' bark and iron./ Dated from one of the testimonials./ Outer pages laid down inside wraps." Orig. illustrated wrappers. Near fine. Item #23722
Price: $125.00