Little Canary's Daisy (The Little Canary Series) 1873

Osgood, Mrs. M. A. Little Canary's Daisy (The Little Canary Series). Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1873. [10931] Green publisher's binding decorated in gilt, bright, clean, 6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches, tight. Small name stamp with date 1887 on the ffep. Frontispiece by John Andrew-Son, extra engraved series title page, 195 clean pp., 2 additional plates. Very good. Hardcover. John Andrew & Son was an engraving firm in Boston that produced book illustrations for Lee & Shepard and Edward S. Curtis. It was established by John Andrew and his son George in 1869. Mary Ann Gunnison Osgood (1826-1902), a New England native. She evidently took up writing to help support her young family; her husband was a struggling music teacher. She began contributing essays, poems, and short stories to religious periodicals in 1854, and Lee & Shepard published her four-volume Little Canary series in 1872. "The series relates the domestic doings of the Carrol children and their families. Music, important to t