Child’s Sunshine

London and New York: The Sunshine Publishing Company, No date [c. 1890-1900]. Boards. 4to; 256pp; color pictorial boards; yellow floral and butterfly endpapers; frontispiece of Santa delivering gifts; pictorial titlepage; profusely illustrated; scuffing to board edges with loss, 1” closed tear to bottom first page; very good. OCLC locates this in 3 libraries. Very good. Item #1426

Gift-style book with an anthology of stories, poems, illustrations, and cartoons. Profusely illustrated in black and white by famous artists including: Maud Humphrey, [L.J.] Bridgman, W.H. Shelton, D. Clinton Peters, E.G. Tucker, E.C. Held, Irene E. Jerome and [Charles] Copeland. The headpiece on the first chapter features an illustration with the title Sunshine for Little Children over the chapter title “Wee Girls and Boys.” Sunshine Publishing Company also published the title, Sunshine for Little Children, in 1888.

Price: $85.00