The Swan and Other Stories, Printed in Oil Colors, Natural History Series

New York: McLoughlin Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1870. Wraps. Very good. 12mo (7 ½" x 6"); 8, [1]pp; pictorial wrapper printed in yellow, green, and red; front wrapper features two swans within fancy printed borders, publisher's ad on rear wrapper; publisher's string binding; gift inscription in neat pencil on recto first plate; 3 chromolithographed plates; scattered spotting on front wrapper, dark brown stain to foot of all leaves not encroaching on text or illustrations; very good minus. Three stories with color illustrated plates are included in this book from McLoughlin Brothers' Natural History Series, The Swan, The Hen and Chickens, and Mother Duck. A fourth short story included is titled The Duck. The Hen and Chickens and Mother Duck are told in rhyming verse. Despite staining in the bottom margins, it is a lovely copy with intensely colored plates.