(SALESMAN'S DUMMY) Mother Goose Melodies and Nursery Rhymes. Chicago: P. W. Ziegler and Co., (1897).
First Edition, Salesman's Dummy Copy. Original illustrated boards with approximately 30 pages of example pages and illustrations for this edition of Mother Goose poems and songs. Bound with three other Salesman's Dummies in a publisher's custom made carrying case in brown cloth, folding flap with button clasp. Nice collection of four Salesman's Dummies for the publisher of P. W. Ziegler including Mother Goose (1897) / Painting Plays for Rainy Days (1897, children's activity book with stories and illustrations to be colored or painted), Victoria, Sixty Years a Queen, Her Life, Reign, Golden, and Diamond Jubilee by R. C. V. Meyeres. (1897) / Glimpses of the Orient or The Manners, Customs, Life and History of the People of China, Japan and Corea by Trumbull White, illustrations by Teitoku Morimoto, J. C. Fireman and others. (1897). Each Dummy with example pages and salesman record sheets at rear. Very Good bright collection with some of the illustrations for the Painting Plays title colored in with water colors or crayon in Very Good binder, with generally soiling and wear, interior binding cracked between two Dummies.
Price: $300.00