Bye-Baby-Bye Stories for Little Folks, Tit Bit Story Series
New York and London: Thos.Nelson & Sons and S.W. Partridge & Co., No date [c. 1882]. Wraps. New York: Thos. Nelson & Sons, 42, Bleeker Street, and London: S.W. Partridge & Co., 9, Paternoster Row
48mo (3 11/16” x 2 7/8”); [22]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper, title on front, series and publisher on rear wrapper; gift inscription on recto fp dated 1882; color fp; silhouette vignette of a bird on title page; text and 12 illustrations printed in blue; light hand-soiling; very good plus. OCLC locates 2 copies, one in the U.S. and one in Canada. Very good +. Item #1740
Eleven blurbs with corresponding illustrations on the facing page. Two have a religious theme, one cautioning against drink. Four of the illustrations are silhouettes. Probably written and first published in the U.K. as some of the text has British subject matter.
Price: $150.00