The Instructor Book of the Circus for Hectograph
Dansville, N.Y. F.A. Owen Company, 1946. Priscilla PERLEY, Bess Bruce CLEAVELAND, Mabel Betsy HILL. [EPHEMERA] [JUVENILE] [ACTIVITY BOOK] [WOMEN ILLUSTRATORS]. Priscilla PERLEY, Bess Bruce CLEAVELAND, Mabel Betsy HILL, illustrators.
4to (10 ¾” x 8 ½”); 24pp printed recto only; stiff yellow wrapper printed in bright blue on front, rear panel has a stamp from the press “Please Order From Continental Press, Harrisburg, Pa.”; line drawings in b&w each page; fine. Not recorded. Item #2136
A bright and very scarce children’s coloring book for hectograph replication of the sheets. Each page is perforated for easy removal and features a titled and numbered circus-themed picture, along with the illustrator’s name. The inside wrapper features a Table of Contents along with small black line illustrations. The rear inside wrapper gives instructions to “Keep this book in a dry, cool place so as to prevent the deterioration of the ink” as well as “A Hectograph Recipe.” The hectograph was a duplicator of images using gelatin and was sometimes called a “jellygraph.”.
Price: $100.00