Books published by publisher McLoughlin Brothers (New York)

Very tall - Measures 13.5" tall by 7" wide. Heavy stock wraps and pages are cut at top "paper doll style" around the outline of Goody's head on front wrap. 14 pages of text and illustrations, including insides of front and back wraps. Staple bound. Charming didactic tale -- a different version of the classic "poor orphan makes good eventually" story. Origin of the phrase Goody Too Shoes--meaning an annoyingly virtuous person. Poor Margery: When her father Farmer Meanwell lost everything to Farmer Graspall and Sir Thomas Gripe, Margery was orphaned without even a pair of shoes. She learned to read and taught the other children. She became governess to Sir Charles Jones who married her. This anonymous tale sometimes is attributed to Sir Oliver Goldsmith. Hard to find collectible edition.

Worn copy of rare Waugh item, Good only, 10pps, chromolith drawings of cavorting little girls with verses doubtless supplied by long time associate Amy Blanchard (unmentioned here). #53 from the Over the Hills series. Date is a guess. Born in Philadelphia, Ida Waugh (1846-1919) studied at home with her father as well as at the Pennsylvania Academy, and at the Academie Julian in Paris. Her illustrated children's books were produced with her lifelong companion Amy Blanchard who owned a neighboring summer cottage in Maine. Waugh's half-brother, the well-known marine painter Frederick Judd Waugh, and her father seemed to have overshadowed Ida most of her life and little is known about her.

McLoughlin Bros., New York [Published Date: No date listed, circa late 1880's to early1890's]. Illustrated paper over boards, 112 pp. With 6 chromolithographs. "abridged and adapted from the original story by I. F. M. [i.e. John Francis Waller (J.F.W.)], author of "The boy's first reader," "The girl's first reader," "Queer characters," etc. ; with colored illustrations." An early edition of the McLoughlin Bros.' Swiss Family Robinson, one of a series of "words of one syllable" books published by McLoughlin Bros. With a scarce cover illustration of three dogs attacking a bear with two hunters in the background. [From Preface] THE kind reception given to the system of writing in words of one syllable has encouraged the Author to add the popular story of "The Swiss Family Robinson" as a twin book to "Robinson Crusoe." The monosyllablic rule has been strictly adhered to throughout, the only exception occurring necessarily in the title of the book itself. The Author's object has been to provide "a field of exercise for a child who has just learnt to conquer words; and it is a great point in all teaching to let the first independent exercise be one in which victory is really to be won by moderate effort." McLoughlin publications are particularly well known for their use of colored illustrations, which were hand-stenciled during the firm's early years and printed using chromolithographs and photo engravings later on.