The Monkeys Circus 1883 McLoughlin Brothers Antique Children's Picture Book Rare

  

Saddle-stitched in printed card covers. Front cover has chipped fore-corners. Dampstains in the top margin of pages. Seventeen full-page color illustrations, each with a poem about the monkey circus with a few others describing scenarios played out by the monkeys.

Rubber stamp of the''Mayer & Miller Boot and Shoe Store, Springfield, Ills. A couple closed edge tears.

[18] pages (including inside of covers). 10.6 x 8.3 inches. The rare pirated edition issued by McLoughlin Bros of the even more rare''What they did at the monkey's circus'' published by E.

Dutton [ref: American Antiquarian Society]. McLoughlin Bros, What they did at the monkey's circus.