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 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York. McLoughlin Bros. ©1897.
Description
124, [4] pages, illustrations, 24 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Former owner
Library of Congress genre(s)
Rare books genre
Getty AAT genre
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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