Mother Goose's Magic Transformations 18th century American newspapers - Massachusetts - Specimens Ephemeral items like greeting cards

Ephemeral items like greeting cards carry an inherently high structural fragility factor

illustrated with several photographic portraits of Newton plus a portrait of him drawn by Emory Douglas

A manuscript book dummy for Sonny Elephant is secured at Yale University Library

The original artwork measures 13-7/16" wide x 8-5/16" high executed on a 14-3/16" wide x 9-1/8" high sheet of sturdy artist board

Seuss there were seven of them) so well represented in the book's illustrations

Mother Goose's Magic Transformations 18th century American newspapers - Massachusetts - Specimens Ephemeral items like greeting cards(Toy and Movable Books) Mother Goose's Magic Transformations. N. Y. [i. e. New York]: McLoughlin Brothers, circa 1882. 12mo 7 1 2" x 5 3 4". Original chromolithographed pictorial paper wrappers with title and imprint on front wrapper, along with the illustration "Jack & Gill" which is not repeated inside; back wrapper with publisher's advertisement for: One Syllable Primer; Linen A. B. C. Book; Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Books; and New Pantomime Toy