RARE AMERICAN CHAPBOOK - "SPRING" - 16 pp + WALLPAPER BACK COVER - NEW YORK and BALTIMORE

Item Details

New York and Baltimore, Samuel Wood & Sons, Samuel Wood & Co., 1818

Spring is one of a series of early chapbooks describing activities of each of the four seasons.

The 16 page book is written in prose and verse and features eight hand-colored woodcut illustrations.   

From OCLC:

The title vignette has caption: Infancy--The spring of life. Wood engravings appear in the text with following captions: Ploughing. Harrowing. Sowing seed. Birds and nest. Feeding chickens. Jumping the rope. Trundling the hoop

Advertising text on page 16 mentions the other books in the series - Autumn, Summer, and Winter.

Published in New York by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl Street, and Samuel S. Wood & Co. no. 212, Market St. Baltimore.

2" x 3 1/4" - the front wallpaper wrapper is missing, and the pages are sewn together.