Author: Nicholas Bohny
Title: The New Picture Book Being Pictorial Lessons on Form, Comparison, and Number for Children Under Seven Years of Age
Description: Edinburgh, Edmonston and Douglas, 1867. Cloth. A scarce early edition of this hand-coloured educational picture book for children. The fourth edition of the work. First published in 1858. Scarce in any early edition. With thirty five hand coloured plates. Collated, lacking plate XIV. A charming work educating children on form, comparison, and number through a series of coloured plates, with explanations by Nicholas Bohny. An early example of this scarce, but nonetheless influential nineteenth century children's work. In quarter cloth with pictorial boards. Externally sound with loss to the extremities and marks to the boards. Hinges strained. Internally binding failed with several leaves detached but present. Lacking plates XIV. The occasional loss to the extremities of the leaves, particularly to plate VI. Marginal age toning and the odd spot. Fair . Ill.: Nicholas Bohny. Fair .

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