My Mother, Mother's Series

New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1863. [RHYMING VERSE]. 24mo (5 7/8" x 4 ¾"); [8]pp; stiff color wrapper, printed in red and black on yellow ground, vignette of a young girl and her mother on the front, rear wrapper features publisher's ad for "Picture Books for Little Children / For Sale at all Book Stores. / 66 Different kinds, for Six Cents Each"; publisher's string binding; gift inscription on verso front wrapper; 7 chromolithographed illustrations with rhyming verse; light wear and soiling to wrapper; very good plus. A small early McLoughlin book. No address as in the AAS example (AAS 611186). The first verse is accompanied by an illustration of a mother breastfeeding a child.