Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, New York : McLoughlin Bros, 2020.
Summary
"Stories and poems with pictures. Many pieces are signed by "L.E.R." (i.e., Laura E. Richards). Cover title and imprint. With a half-title. Imprint from cover. Cover and frontispiece chromolithographed. Textual illustrations produced by a photomechanical process. "No. 798.--Holiday story book. Size, 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches. ... The cover is lithographed in full colors and gold, and varnished."--McLoughlin Bros.' catalogue (1899), p. 50. Cover design of Papa bear, Mama bear, and little boy bear dressed in human clothing looks like the work of Fredrika Grosvenor. Illustrations signed by Harrison Weir, A.T. Elwes, "Church" (i.e., Frederick S. Church), "Whitehead," "M." and "M.E.E." (i.e., Mary Ellen Edwards), "M.L.G." EÌmile Antoine Bayard, E. Stevens, R. & E. Taylor, I.A. Tomkins, "W.C.S.," "L.J.," Friedrich Specht (illustrator), Carl Gotlob Specht (engraver), "H.R.," Lizzie Lawson, John Greenaway, "A.," M. Klinkicht, "H.J.R.," "J.L.," "J.Q.," "E.H.," Ernest Griset, and Adolphe François Pannemaker."