Little Miss Lacqueret's Drawing Book for Children

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  Easy Drawing for Little Ones

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  One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Easy Drawing for Little Ones, published by Fleischmann Co., New York, ca. 1885?. This 8-page promotional drawing booklet contains an illustrated "story" of a little girl who makes bread using Fleischmann's yeast. Each page contains a few lines of rhyming text. Bound in between the images are leaves of tracing paper. The chromolithographed front cover features an image of a young girl and boy who are making bread. "No. 16" is printed in the lower right-hand corner of the front cover. The insides of the front and back cover contain advertising text for Fleischmann's yeast, as does the back cover. Some of the images have been traced.

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  "Satin Gloss" Drawing Book, for Little Folks

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  One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled "Satin Gloss" Drawing Book, for Little Folks, published by David S. Brown & Co., New York, ca. 1885. This 8-page booklet is a promotional piece for Satin Gloss soap and is comprised of 8 different lithograph advertising images, each with a sheet of tracing paper bound in. The covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features a little girl holding two rabbits; the back cover pictures two little girls, one of whom is whispering in the ear of the other. Each of the images for tracing are captioned with promotional phrases; an image of a horse-drawn cart is captioned "This is one of the trucks that delivers Satin Gloss Soap to your grocer." The insides of the front and back covers contain advertising text. Each of the images has been copied onto tracing paper.

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  Little Folks' Painting and Drawing Book

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  One drawing/painting book, ca. 1905, entitled Little Folks' Painting and Drawing Book, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York. This book is 32 unnumbered pages in length and is comprised of chromolithograph and black and white lithographs in outline form for coloring. The front cover features an image of two children wrapping a gift box. "0701, McLoughlin Bros. N.Y." is printed in the lower left-hand corner beneath the image. The back cover is not illustrated, but the paper is decorated in a simple pattern. "Directions" are printed on the front pastedown, and the title page is illustrated with a black and white image of a boy painting a fence. All of the illustrations are of animals; some have been colored. A ms. inscription in ink is on the title page. "2.-" (price) is written in ms., in pencil, in the upper right-hand corner of the title page.

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  John Martin's Book, A Magazine for Little Children

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  One magazine entitled John Martin's Book, A Magazine for Little Children, Volume 1, Number 4, published by John Martin's House, Inc., New York, March 1913. This illustrated magazine is 96 (unnumbered) pages in length, and includes stories, poems, rhymes, recipes, drawing and coloring work, songs, and activities, among others. Many of the pages bear advertisements at the bottom, and much of the last 40 pages are full-page manufacturers' advertisements. The front cover is a color illustration of an oversized owl sitting on a branch, with two children nestled into him, and a fairy reaching out to the sleeping children with a long, leafy branch. On the inside of the front cover is a poem, and the inside of the back cover is an advertisement from the toy company F.A.O. Schwarz entitled "Playing House is Lots of Fun". The back cover is an advertisement for Colgate toothpaste, in rhyme. The illustrations throughout are in both black and white and black and red. Some have been colored in, with paint and/or crayon, by a previous owner. "Mrs. Roberta E. Sargent" is written in ms. on the front cover, and "2.00" (price) is written in ms. on p. 1.

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  The Little Folks Painting Book

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  One painting book entitled The Little Folks Painting Book, by Kate Greenaway, published by McLoughlin Bros., New York, ca. 1910. This book is comprised of 15 plates of black and white images of children meant for coloring; many of these have been colored in. Each page contains four labeled images, one in each of the four quadrants of a page. The front cover is a chromolithograph of several children, one of whom is painting at an easel. The back cover is an illustrated publisher's advertisement for "Pantomime Toy Books." The inside of the front cover contains text in three parts: "The Little Folks Painting Book"; "A Few Practical Directions", and "Instructions for Mixing the Colors." The inside of the back cover contains publisher's advertisements.

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  Tiny Tots Drawing Book

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  One manufacturer's advertisement/drawing book entitled Tiny Tots Drawing Book, published by Emerson Piano Co., Boston, Massachusetts, ca. 1885. Printed at the bottom of the front cover is "4- Little Pets." This 8-page booklet contains several images on each of the 8 pages, with leaves of tracing paper bound in between each leaf, for tracing. The front and back covers are chromolithographs; the front cover features a little girl holding two rabbits; the back cover features a smaller image of a little girl near a rosebush. Printed on the back cover is: "Compliments of Emerson Piano Co., 110 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. Western Branch: 195 Wabash Ave., Chicago." Images for tracing include a horse, a pony, chickens, birds and rabbits. Some of the images have been traced. A blue ink stamp on the back cover reads: "Frank M. Grow, Sole Agent, Rutland. VT." "Winslow Bowen" is written in ms., in pencil, along the outer edge of the front cover.

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