Opening Hours
Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
Literature for little folks : selections from standard authors, and easy lessons in composition
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Rare Books
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One drawing book entitled Self-Instructing Drawing Lessons, for the Little Folks, by John D. F. Brooks, Boston, 1868. This book is 42 unnumbered pages in length and contains numerous line-drawings. Each drawing features a step-by-step number guide for creating a finished drawing. The subjects of these drawings include: a horse, boats, garden tools and equipment, body parts and small scenes. The front cover contains a large circular engraving of three children in a run-down kitchen, one of whom draws while the other two watch. The inside of the front cover contains textual instructions, and the inside of the back cover features other (completed) images. The back cover is an advertisement for Frost & Adams, "importers and dealers in artists' materials". "A.E.C." is written in ms., in ink, at the top of the front cover.
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Visual Materials
One boxed set of paper stencils entitled For the Kindergarten, For Little Folks, Drawing Made Easy, manufactured by [McLoughlin Bros.], ca. 1890. The set is comprised of 6 large paper stencils. The scenes of the stencils are named on the box lid: "Dutch Wind Mill, German Village, French Convent, New Navy, Old Navy, Summer Home." Accompanying the stencils are 4 illustrations made using the stencils. The stencils are housed within a paperboard box that bears a chromolithograph-illustrated label on the top lid. The label image depicts a boy who is drawing at a table. This image is surrounded by the title and a decorative border. The manufacturer's name is not present on the box nor on the stencils, but the set is very similar to sets 3 and 4 in Box 81, and was probably made by the same manufacturer. Also accompanying this set are four additional, smaller, paper stencils.
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