First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 boats on water Pages 20 - 27

Pages 20 - 27

with a little scattered spotting on the mountain

It was photographed and produced by the Kilburn Brothers (Benjamin West Kilburn and his brother Edward Kilburn) of Littleton

his subjects included animals

so I'd treat it as a sculpture and display it head up

First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 boats on water Pages 20 - 27This is quite a rare one, and both a fun and useful one, which I have found a couple of copies of listed elsewhere in the $200 $400 range). Essentially a visual dictionary, with a key on the last page identifying each of the objects pictured, it was published by McLoughlin Bros., Inc., c. 1884. (It shows a 1884 copyright, but it is hard to know if a first or or very early edition.) McLoughlin (1858 1920, when it was sold to Milton Bradley) was a New