The Minstrel Boy and Other Stories

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1882. Miss Ida WAUGH. Wraps. [POETRY] [WOMAN ILLUSTRATOR]. Miss Ida WAUGH, illustrator. 8vo; [8]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, boy playing the flute on front, publisher’s ads for “Picture Books for Little Children.” on rear within a decorative red border; ownership in pencil on verso front wrapper; color illustrations with rhyming verse; small smudge to front upper corner with closed tears, 2 ½” separation at foot of spine fold; very good. Very good. Item #1699

Bright chromolithographs featuring children at play are pictured throughout this small book of rhyming verse. The artist Ida Waugh (1846-1919) was known for her winsome illustrations and was an award-winning painter exhibiting both in the U.S. and Paris.

Price: $75.00