First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 strawberry emeries and really want to know

and really want to know the whole story of this man's life

I am guessing 1930s or early 40s

with blue hand-stitching around the edges and center

and then the boy a few months later

wrapping around the sides of the egg and surrounded by flames

First/Very Early Edition McLaughlin Bros. "Object Teacher" Picture Book, Copyright 1884 strawberry emeries and really want to knowThis 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