Grandmamma Easy's Amusing Addition

Softcover octavo, 10.75 x 7 inches. [8]p printed one side only on facing pages. Hand colored illustrations throughout. No date; gift inscription dated 1852; Greene known to be active beginning in 1849. Very Good with light rubbing around the edges and a small old paper repair in the upper margin of the front cover. Print and coloring is bold and bright.

Advertisements for Grandmamma and Grandpapa Easy's series published in London by Thomas Dean appeared in the 1840s. An 1846 notice in Bent's Literary Advertiser puts Amusing Addition: a New Poetical Number Book in the Grandpapa "original sixpenny pictorial toy book" series. Several publishers in the United States adopted the titles, including Appleton in Philadelphia and Richard Pease in Albany, who substituted his fortuitously slant-rhymed surname. The actual contents and format could vary between publishers, and though Greene co-published the same titles with Boston firm Brown, Bazin & Co, the only print listing for the title in WorldCat is attributed to Brown and shares the "New Poetical..." drop title not included in this Greene publication, which does not appear in WorldCat.