Mother Goose's Magic Transformations 18th century American newspapers - Massachusetts - Specimens Cream silk cord bound color

Cream silk cord bound color pictorial stiff card wrappers with minor touches of wear to the head and tail of spine

Ephemeral items like greeting cards carry an inherently high structural fragility factor

further pulling of the tab reveals a third color picture illustrating the story

A manuscript book dummy for Sonny Elephant is secured at Yale University Library

the front board being 1-5/8" shorter than the back board revealing ten die-cut paper heads of the titular boys

Mother Goose's Magic Transformations 18th century American newspapers - Massachusetts - Specimens Cream silk cord bound color(Toy and Movable Books) Mother Goose's Magic Transformations. N. Y. [i. e. New York]: McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1882. 12mo 7 1 2" x 5 3 4". Original chromolithographed pictorial paper wrappers with title and imprint on front wrapper, along with the illustration "Jack & Gill" which is not repeated inside; back wrapper with publisher's advertisement for: One Syllable Primer; Linen A. B. C. Book; Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Books; and New Pantomime Toy