| Summary: | "Cover title. Caption title: Aladdin or, The wonderful lamp. Text printed in double columns. Peter G. Thomson was active as a printer, publisher, and bookseller in Cincinnati beginning in 1877. Cf. Walter Sutton, The western book trade, (1961), p. 339.Thomson sold his picture book stock to McLoughlin Bros. ca. 1884; cf. Robert J. Buck, Trail blazers of the Thomson Gamble family (1948), p. 16-17. "These toy books are printed from wood blocks ... The designs are entirely new and original, and the colors rich and brilliant, and the paper far better than is usually used in books of this class."--p. [4] of wrapper. Illustrations signed "J.B.G.," J.B. Geyser. "Big picture books for little children, twenty-five cents each ... Aladdin, or The wonderful lamp. ...The above are also mounted on linen, with pure linen leaves. Price, sixty cents each. ..."--advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper."
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