Antique Children Book, "Household Pets. Interesting and Instructive Stories of Pussy and Dog Tray", fully illustrated, published by Lothrop Publishing Company, Boston, 1900. Collected short stories, poems and non-fiction pieces about cats and dogs for Victorian era children, illustrated throughout with over one hundred engravings and full-page plates.

Daniel Lothrop, the publisher known as "the children's friend" (1831-1892 ) was born in Rochester, New Hampshire. Initially, he worked with his brother James in a drugstore. In 1850, he bought stock of a bookseller in Dover, N.H. and sold the items in his drugstore. After spending time in the Midwest, he moved to Boston, and in 1868 opened a publishing house and bookstore specializing on the literature for children and youth. He successfully instituted a new and distinct literature format for children, which brought him the title of the "children's friend". He was eminently successful in elevating the standard of literature for the Sunday-school, for young people and for the home, always carrying out his first expressed purpose "never to publish a work simply sensational, no matter what chances of money it has in it, and to publish books that will make true, steadfast growth in right living- not alone right thinking, but right living." In 1874 he originated "Wide Awake", a magazine for young people and the family. The Pansy, Our Little Men and Women, Babyland, the Chautauqua Young Folks' Journal and the quarterly "Best Things", were other periodicals issued by his firm, and all were eminently successful.

After his death, his widow continued the business which merged with Lee & Shepard in 1905, to form Lothrop, Lee & Shepard. This publisher was eventually acquired by William Morrow and Company, and was shuttered in 1999 after Morrow was acquired by Harper, Collins.

Rates vary per country, we will adjust shipping costs with the invoice.

US: Media (c.4-10 days) -------------- $12.50
Canada: Priority (c.2-6 weeks) ------ $45.50
World: Priority (c.2-8 weeks) ------- $69.50

Hard boards, color illustrated front board, red cloth spine [spine creases, soiling and repairs, boards are rubbed, rounded and rubbed corners, surface wear and small damages: see photos], binding is firm, 8” x 10.1/2”; title page is soiled and has edge damages; unpaginated, c.100 pages printed on heavy thick paper, all pages are illustrated with b/w engravings, several full-page plates printed on one side only, c.30 pages show the edge wear; three pages are damaged by the child’s painting art; two page corner folds, several stains mostly the first c.40 pages; no creases, no missing pager nor parts of the pages; good condition.