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Coles Funny Picture Book No. 1: 75th Anniversary Edition: Cole Turney and Merron Cullum
Coles Funny Picture Book No. 1: 75th Anniversary Edition: Cole Turney and Merron Cullum
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A remarkable man, E. W. Cole, the self-styled "Professor", compiled this amazing picture book in 1879 and released it in a welter of hilarious advertising in time for Christmas. He it was who invented Girl Land, Laziness Land, the fabulous steam-driven Whipping Machine For Naughty Boys, the Scolding Machine for Naughty Girls and a list of over 100 Names Suitable for Dollies and Babies. There's puzzles and games, wise words about people and places, funny words about travelling and husbands and wives. Now wildly politically incorrect - and who cares? It's Cole's Funny Picture Book, an Australian institution, looked for in stockings on Christmas Day for decades. There's plenty of gentleness, love, humour and morals. This facsimile edition has been carefully edited to resemble, as nearly as possible, the klast edition in Cole's lifetime. Illustrated.
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Antiquities & Oddities, Print board cover; previous owner's name otherwise a near fine copyShare
