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A treasury from 1899 — stories, nursery rhymes, and poems gathered for Victorian children, still here over a century later.
Series: Happy Hours, Vol. 4
Publisher: Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston
Copyright: 1899
Format: Hardcover, cloth spine; nearly 2 lbs.
Dimensions: 8.25" x 10.5"
Condition: Fair — cloth spine fraying and separated from pages; heavy cover wear; pages very yellowed with age, slight odor (no mold or mildew); no torn pages, no writing inside. Please review photos closely before purchasing, as all sales are final.
Happy Hours with Merry Little People is the fourth volume in Lothrop Publishing Company's beloved Happy Hours series, first introduced in 1895 with Sunny Days. The oversized volume is filled with black-and-white engraved illustrations and opens with a gorgeous color frontispiece; the illuminated front board — gilded and illustrated in color — is a masterpiece of Victorian bookmaking in its own right.
An extraordinary piece of 19th-century American publishing history, for the serious antiquarian collector, the Victorian ephemera enthusiast, or anyone who appreciates beautiful old things that have genuinely survived time.
Lothrop Publishing Company was among the most distinguished American children's book publishers of the Gilded Age, based in Boston and known for lavishly illustrated gift books aimed at middle- and upper-class Victorian households. The Happy Hours series exemplified the house style: dense anthologies of stories, rhymes, and moral lessons wrapped in ornate, gilt-decorated bindings meant to be given as treasured keepsakes rather than everyday reading.
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