Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book King Franz Joseph Rumsey Collection

Rumsey Collection

Close inspection reveals an interesting assortment of historical notes

Oxford County

United States by Wanamaker's

Tom Thumb midget cat butterfly c.1861 McLoughlin rare hand color picture book King Franz Joseph Rumsey CollectionOriginal antique juvenile story book. Tom Thumb. Cinderella Series. Published NY, McLoughlin Brothers, c. 1855 65. 16 pp. [counting covers], 8 orig. hand colored woodcut images. The printed pages with blank versos. Electrotyped by Vincent Dill. Much loved and handled survival, spine paper well split, covers loosened and well worn with edge splits, assorted age soiling, signs of handling. Images still mostly clean. The survival rate of 19th century