Author: Wain, Louis; and Bingham, Charles.
Title: Jingles, Jokes, and Funny Folks. Illustrated by Louis Wain and Written by Clifton Bingham.
Description: London: Ernest Nister / New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. circa [1898]. [1898]. - Small quarto, 10-1/8 inches high by 8-1/4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in color pictorial light green boards backed with a darker green cloth spine with a color illustration by George Henry Thompson of a mother elephant seizing her youngster by the ear after he's stolen a jar of jam. The covers are slightly rubbed, bumped and soiled. [48] unnumbered pages, with a tipped-in color chromolithographic frontispiece of two cats riding a tricycle and profuse black & white illustrations by Louis Wain and a few by Ernest Nister. The pages are slightly soiled with some light dampstaining to the front edge of the front endpaper and the edges of the pages are slightly darkened. The text block is starting to crack at the top and bottom of the frontispiece leaf. Very good.

According to the American Antiquarian Society, Julia and Frederick Hunt's book "Peeps into Nisterland: a guide to the children's books of E.H. Nister .. Entry identifies the cover image by G.H. Thompson as 'The Little Thief'."

Identified as "Printed in Boston" with the inventory number "277" centered at the bottom of the front cover. Very good .

Keywords: CHILDREN'S BOOK; ILLUSTRATED; JINGLES, JOKES, AND FUNNY FOLKS; LOUIS WAIN; CLIFTON BINGHAM; ERNEST NISTER; GEORGE HENRY THOMPSON; 19TH CENTURY; NINETEENTH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATIONS; E.P. DUTTON & CO.; CHROMOLITHOGRAPH; COLOR ILLUSTRATION; POETRY; VER

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