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Comprises: The Tiny Picture Book. Hand-colored wood-engraved illustrations. 3½x2½, original orange printed boards (spine lacking). Charlestown, [MA]: G.W. Hobbs, c.1860's. * The History of Little Henry and His Bearer. Frontispiece, title illustration. 5¼x3, original printed orange wrappers. Newburyport, [MA]: W. & J. Gilman, [before 1830]. The Gilmans were among America's earliest self-taught wood engravers. * Gems for Children. 8 pp. Illustrated. 2¾x2, original printed pink wrappers (backstrip re-taped). Concord, NH: J.A. Merriam & Rufus Merrill, c.1850's. Together, 3 volumes. Small format, original bindings.

Three early American imprints.