Nov 20, 2003 - Sale 1986

Sale 1986 - Lot 153

Price Realized: $ 374
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
SOLO MC LOUGHLIN PUBLICATION (JUVENILES.) [Perrault, Charles.] Little Red-Riding Hood. 6 wood-engraved illustrations. 12mo, original pictorial wrappers, hand-colored, owner's inked signature on title, overall dampstaining on covers and contents. New York: John McLoughlin, circa 1851

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First printing, first issue, with John McLoughlin Jr. as a solo printer at 24 Beekman Street in New York City after the dissolution of Elton & Co., the publishing house owned by his father John Sr. and Robert H. Elton. The printing blocks used were those of Edward Dunigan, a New York picture book publisher for whom Robert Elton had executed many wood engravings.