Animaux

1880 · 0009132 — Philadelphia: Sunshine Publishing Co. 1880-95. Sewn wrappers. Good. Quarto 18 pages lithographed stone wrappers rear cover detached <br/><br/>Volume containing miscellaneous uncredited poems and brief stories with corresponding unsigned illustrations on facing pages. Includes a six-page illustrated version of "The Three Little Pigs". The covers include spaces for the names of commercial enterprises generally department stores or the like to whom the book was supplied for use as a promotional gift. The cover and inside pages contain advertisements various Aurora Illinois businesses such as Wilcox & Gilbert dress goods at River Street and Downer Place. With full-page ad for T. Kingsford & Son's "Oswego NY " starches. Records indicate that the title "Our picture book" was used by Sunshine Publishing Co. for volumes of varying content and number of pages. NOTE: the rear cover shows Kate Greenaway-esque children at play on a swing. Sunshine Publishing Co. unknown