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Catalogue of paper, linen and indestructible toy books half-bound and bound juvenile books, games, ABC blocks, picture and building blocks, backgammon boards, checker and chess boards, paper dolls, soldiers, etc.
Author
McLoughlin Bros. Inc
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York. McLoughlin Bros. ©1897.
Description
124, [4] pages, illustrations, 24 cm
Availability
Available Online
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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
96665 Eng 19
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Subject(s)
Children's books
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19th century
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Santa Claus
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Pictorial works
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Former owner
McLoughlin Bros
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Catalogs
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Rare books genre
Publishers' copies
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Markings
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Advertisements
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Paper dolls
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Advertisements
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Toys
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Advertisements
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Toy books
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Advertisements
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Games
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Advertisements
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Toy soldiers
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Publishers' catalogues
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1897
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Getty AAT genre
catalogs (documents)
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Restrictions note
For conservation reasons, access is granted for compelling reasons only: please consult the curator of the Cotsen Children's Library.
Notes
Copyright notice on upper cover.
"July, 1897" --At head of cover title.
Index of books and games, respectively, on 4 unnumbered pages at end.
"Gentlemen: In presenting our Annnual Catalog to our friends in the trade, we desire to call attention to a fact or two... handsomer and cheaper lithographed toy books ... games, blocks ands scroll puzzles ... [the] cheapest to be had in the market place ... it is our fixed intetnion not to be undersold. --"To the Trade" note on verso of title page (page [2]). (This note first appeared in the 1895 catalogue.)
Cotsen copy: Annotated with pencil check-marks next to titles throughout the first 55 pages, possibly by McLoughlin Bros. corporate offices, or perhaps by a later owner.
Binding note
Publisher's paper-covered boards, chromolithographed pictorial upper with gilt, black-outlined lettering, and foregrounded illustration of a jolly Santa holding a packfull of toys and a holly bough, with reindeer and a full moon in background; lower cover with floral-pattern matching the floral-patterned endpapers (lower cover and endpapers, as per earlier editions); blue-gray cloth spine strip.
Other format(s)
Also available in an electronic version.
Other title(s)
McLoughlin Bros. illustrated catalogue, July 1897
July 1897, McLoughlin Bros.' illustrated catalogue
McLoughlin Bros' catalogue : toy books
McLoughlin Bros' catalogue
OCLC
179244175
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