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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
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1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The Pretty Peggy painting book
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
Visual Materials
One painting book entitled Something Pretty to Paint, published by Ernest Nister, London and E.P. Dutton & Co., New York, ca. 1915. This book is comprised of 10 plates, some chromolithographs and some lithographs, of perforated cards, largely containing floral images and Biblical verse. The chromolithographs are samples, and the images in outline form are intended for coloring and sending. Each leaf of the lithograph cards is perforated along the inner edge, and each leaf is comprised of four separate cards, with perforations in between. The front cover is a chromolithograph image of a girl in a pink dress holding her landscape painting. The back cover is blank. "Printed in Bavaria, 399" is printed at the bottom of the front cover and of the title page. "$4805amo/10-" is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the first page.
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Visual Materials
One set of painting books entitled Pretty Pets Painting Books. Six Kinds, All Different, published by Saml. Grabriel Sons & Company, New York, ca. 1910. Only three of the six remain; these are Nos. 1, 4, and 6. Each of the books is 22 unnumbered pages in length (including the insides of the front and back covers), and contain a combination of outline images for coloring or painting and their color prototypes. The number of each book is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the front cover, opposite the publisher's name in the lower left-hand corner. All of the images for coloring are of children, and some of the images are repeated within each book. Most of the images in each of the three booklets have been colored, in crayon or in watercolor. The embossed ownership stamp of "Lillian F. Loveitt, 344 Preble Street, South Portland, ME" is on the front cover of each of the three books, and on some of the interior pages of booklet No. 1. Two of the three booklets also contain names of children depicted written below the image (in ms.), presumably Lillian Loveitt wrote these. The booklets are each in a protective envelope, but were originally housed in paperboard box. The lid is illustrated with an image of three children. "No. 820" is printed on a side of the box. Accompanying these three books are three additional painting books from a separate series, published by Saml. Gabriel Sons and Company entitled Kindergarten Drawing Book, Nos. 3, 4 and 5. Each of these books is 10 pages in length (including the insides of the front and back covers), and contain black and white outline images printed over graph paper, for copying and coloring. The color illustrations on each of the three front covers are against a graph paper background, as with the interior images. Each of the books also contain the embossed ownership stamp of Lillian F. Loveitt on the front cover. Each of these books has been used, to some extent.
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Visual Materials
One boxed set of watercolor paints entitled Pretty Pets Paint Box, manufacturer unknown, ca. 1895. The set is comprised of 28 cakes of watercolor paint, two small porcelain dishes, one paintbrush, a piece of glass, and a 5-inch paper ruler. The cakes of paint are embossed with an artist's palette design, and are contained within wooden dividers in a wooden box (no lid). This box is housed within a paperboard box (which does have a lid). Mounted onto the paperboard lid is a chromolithograph image of three girls, each painting a toy elephant. "2.00" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the image on the lid.
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