ALADDIN. The History of Aladdin; or, The Wonderful Lamp. New York: McLoughlin Bro's. [c.1858]
8 hand-coloured illus. Orig. pink pictorial printed paper wrappers; small tear to upper margin, repaired, sl. dulled. v.g. 8pp.
¶An attractive example of an early McLoughlin brothers children's publication prior to their successful expansion into colour printing in the 1860s. The contemporaneously hand-coloured woodcut illustrations, taking up half or more of each page with verse beneath, are by Robert H. Elton, engraver and printer, who founded Elton & Co. with John McLouglin in 1840.
Stock #92683
£180
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
