Donaldson Brothers

The Old Fashioned Mother Goose' Melodies

Donaldson Brothers. William Ludlow Sheppard, illustrator. The Old Fashioned Mother Goose' Melodies: Complete with Magic Colored Pictures. London: G. W. Carleton & Co., 1879. First edition. 
Movable book, with illustrated flaps concealing larger and different images. 
Octavo. Unpaginated (approx. 96pp). Fully illustrated with chromolithographs after drawings by William Ludlow Sheppard. Publisher's red pictorial cloth, spine and front cover lettered and decorated in black and gilt, patterned endleaves. 

From the Reed K. Bilz collection of Mother Goose Nursery Rhymes. 

Darkened to spine, rubbed and soiled to spine and boards, with slight loss at spine ends and corners; ligtly toned and foxed throughout; early ink gift inscription to flyleaf. Very good. Item #3038

Price: $350.00