Accession number:
PML 88471-72
Published:
New York : McLoughlin Bros., N.Y., c1873.
Description:
1 game : col. ill. (lithographs) ; 29.2 x 25.4 x 6.4 cm + 1 booklet
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Date from booklet.
Booklet has 6 leaves of text, in verse, (no. 5 is lacking) and 6 leaves of plates.
Publisher's advertisement on lower cover of booklet.
A six-sided cube puzzle of 30 wooden cubes, each side lithographed with a different domestic scene. 6 different scenes emerge when the puzzles are completed, and the plates in the booklet provide keys to the completed puzzles. The cubes and plates are signed by J. Howard.
Together with the original Aunt Louisa's big picture series book called Baby.
Publisher's advertisements on lower cover.
Binding:
In publisher's wooden box with chromolithograph label on sliding lid. Booklet in modern folder.
Variant Title:
Title on booklet: Baby : Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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