Art in the Nursery : Pictures for Baby to Draw and Pictures for Baby to Laugh At de Cox, Palmer; & J. G. Francis; Boz; Kate Greenaway? - 1879

Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., Publishers, 1879. Near Very Good condition (see photos). Bound in the original green cloth-backed, full-color pictorial boards. Minor wear/soil to edge of cover. Inner hinges are starting to crack but cover is still securely attached. No owner's name or bookplate. Pages are generally clean with no scribbles, writing or coloring. Small piece missing from a corner of the rear free endpaper. First Edition. Oblong hardcover. 7.75" wide by 5" tall. This picture book is a charming collection of comic drawings, mostly by Boz, J. G. Francis (Joseph Greene Francis, 1849-1930). Palmer Cox (including many of Cox's animals and Francis's cats). Full color art on the front cover could be by Kate Greenaway (see photo). Frontispiece by Boz shows Santa Claus with a finger aside his nose, and a sack of toys on his back. Despite its defects, this is a desirable copy of a book tough-to-find in condition as nice as this. A copy of this book can be found in the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature in the Department of Special Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida. . First Edition. Hardcover. Near Very Good condition. Illus. by Cox, Palmer; & J. G. Francis; Boz; Kate Greenaway?. Unpaginated (but 64 pages). Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.