Author: [Martin, Sarah Catherine (1768-1826)].
Title: Old Mother Hubbard: Magical Changes with Mother Goose Melodies. [a Metamorphosis Book].
Description: New York: G.W. Carleton & Co. [1879]. [1879]. - 12mo, 7-3/8 inches high by 5-3/4 inches wide. Softcover, bound in pictorial wraps illustrated and decorated in pastel colors on the front & rear covers, with a list of the titles of the six books in the series printed on the rear cover. The stained & chipped covers are detached and the text block is crudely re-stitched. There are small chips & tears to the edges of the rear cover. [32] pages, including the half-pages. A metamorphosis book consisting of 8 full-page tinted lithographs by William Ludwell Sheppard with a nursery rhyme printed on the verso of each leaf. These pages are interleaved with 8 cropped flaps, measuring 7-3/8 inches high by 2-1/4 inches wide illustrated with tinted lithographs on each side. As each flap is turned over, its verso is revealed as the left hand portion of a new illustration. The pages are stained with wear to the corners. The front edge of a few pages are slightly chipped with tiny tears.

Magic Mother Goose Series: Star Series 4.

A wonderful metamorphosis book designed & printed by Donaldson Brothers, with lithographs by Sheppard illustrating the nursery rhyme of Old Mother Hubbard and her dog, the opening lines of which read: "Old Mother Hubbard, / Went to the cupboard, / To get her poor dog a bone... Fair .

Keywords: CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; SARAH CATHERINE MARTIN; WOMEN AUTHORS; TRANSFORMATION; METAMORPHOSIS BOOK; ILLUSTRATIONS; COLOR LITHOGRAPHS; WILLIAM LUDWELL SHEPPARD; NURSERY RHYMES; OLD MOTHER HUBBARD: MAGICAL CHANGES WITH MOTHER GOOSE MELODIES; MAGIC MOTHER GOOS

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