Summary: | "In verse. Wrapper title. Series statement transposed from head of cover. "No. 39 1/2.--Mamma Lovechild's series. A new edition of a very popular series of books. Mammoth 8vo. 16 pages. Eight colored illustrations. Covers in colors ... Three little kittens"--Catalogue of McLoughlin Bros. toy books, 1886, p. 6. Publisher's advertisement, lower cover, includes ads for Variety cob-house building blocks, Loto, Yankee letter blocks, and Dissected map of the United States--identical or highly similar ads for these items were in the forementioned 1886 catalogue. Cover printed in red, black, and green ink. Wood-engraved cover design signed by William Momberger. Publisher's advertisement, lower cover, includes an ad signed "W.B." (i.e., W. Bruton?). "Mamma Lovechild's series ... Three little kittens ... Colored."--series list, p. [4] of wrapper. Textual wood engravings hand colored. Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper, includes ads for books and games."
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