Story of the Robin, Gilt Cover Picture Books

New York: McLoughlin Bros., Publishers, No date [c. 1870s]. [JUVENILE] [POETRY]. 4to; [16]pp; stiff color pictorial wrapper printed in red, green, and gold; rear wrapper publisher’s advertisements for New Picture Books for Little Children including: Big Picture Series, Little Folks’ Series, Uncle Ned’s Picture Books, Gilt Cover Picture Books, and New Paper Dolls; publisher’s string binding; ownership in pencil on recto first page; 4 chromolithograph plates, text printed one side only; light hand-soiling, creasing of corners; very good. Scarce in the marketplace. Item #2076

Brightly illustrated stories about robins told in verse. The rhymes teach life lessons and morals with a religious overtone, as seen in much of 19th century children’s literature. “So the red-breasted Robin sings away in the tree, / To you and to me, to you and to me; / He sings us a lesson, little girl, little boy, / “That the world has in it much pleasure and joy;-- / But long it won’t be, Don’t you know? Don’t you see? / Unless we are all as good as can be.”.

Price: $150.00