Little Songs for Little People

New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 683 Broadway, 1859. [JUVENILE] [POETRY]. John A. Gray, Printer and Stereotyper, 16 & 18 Jacob St. Fire-Proof Buildings.

16mo (6” x 4”); 398 pp; quarter-bound black calf with pebbled black cloth, gilt-stamped title with gilt ruled spine; yellow eps, ownership bookplate on front paste down; ownership in neat script on second fly-leaf; wood engraved fp; title page decorated with printed border and flowers; small wood engraved illustrations in text; binding error includes page 405 following page 398 in the “Index of First Lines” and is printed with a different font and size and title”; light rubbing of spine, light foxing, soiling to title page and chipping of fore edge, light finger
marks, large closed tear to pg 405 “Index of Subjects”; very good. OCLC locates 15 copies. Item #2253

An anthology of poems for children first published in 1857. The authors or sources of the poems are sometimes identified and include Mrs. Sigourney, Rev. C.H.A. Bulkley, and notably Mrs. Mary Howeiit (1799-1888), an author and early pioneer in the women’s right movement in England. Scarce in the marketplace.

Price: $100.00