THE TEA PARTY.
No Place [New York?]: No Publisher [McLoughlin Bros.?], No Date [1894?]. Small octavo, 180 x 120 mm, original glossy colour pictorial wrappers, 12 pp + covers, stapled at spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white & with 4 full-page plates in full colour chromolithography. A shape book, the book is shaped so that the head and fore-edge margins are curved along the image of the tree branches. Trifling rubbing, light wear along spine panel, a near fine copy of this beautiful Victorian Children's Book. Item #313662
¶ Gorgeously illustrated. Uncommon, if not just plain rare. In verse, with pictures. The Title is transcribed from the upper cover. Caption title: The Tea-party. Date and publisher attribution is from a copy of "McLoughlin Bros. Confidential price-list and telegraph code, Season 1894-95" held at the American Antiquarian Society. That copy - which belonged to McLoughlin Bros. Vice President Charles E. Miller - has a handwritten note which states: "Artless. 35. Tea party [series, shape, 4 kds.] 3.50 [per gross]"-- - WorldCat lists but 3 copies held in Libraries worldwide (UBC, NYPL, AAS).
Price (CAD): $150.00