PICTURES And STORIES For The YOUNG: or Pleasing Tales in Poetry and Prose. Babcock's Moral, Instructive and Amusing Toy Books
by Children's Chapbook
$50 · Offered by Tavistock Books
New Haven: Published by S. Babcock, n. d. . Ca 1840s, cf. American Imprints 41-4164. 24 pp. Illustrated with cuts. 12mo. 5-3/4 x 3-3/4 . Printed pink paper wrappers, sewn. Pictorial border, with one vignette of 3 boys playing baseball. Rear wrapper with advert for Babcock's 'Toy and Juvenile Books'. Now housed in a clear archival mylar sleeve. Some wear & soiling to wrappers. Abrasion to rear wrapper
- Binding: Wrappers
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