First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 boats on water This is a 1940 copy

This is a 1940 copy (the second photo shows another uncovered copy listed separately) and features some pretty great photographs and diagrams

which also reads quite like a very primitive

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

with a little scattered spotting on the mountain

The heights of the sides are a bit uneven and the application of the glazes far from precise

First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 boats on water This is a 1940 copyThis 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