First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 faces When I first saw him

When I first saw him I immediately associated the black painted plaque he is mounted to as looking like a crescent moon

song birds

against which the deep orange cinnabar color really pops

) As is the gilded frame is I think a good and traditional fit for it and I'd just leave it alone

first published 1708

First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 faces When I first saw himThis 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