Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Books

Published by McLoughlin Bros.

This series clearly has the most titles of any of the McLoughlin juvenile series.
The listings here are from the catalogues and take into account the yearly additions and deletions. At times several listings were in disagreement as to which titles were present in which years. Below are the best guesses.

The books are all in wraps with title appropriate cover pictures. A number of examples are shown here.

The "Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Books" included various books listed below from 1876 to about 1888.

Many of these volumes were written by Laura Valentine.

Dating these books is difficult but a close approximation can be done.
First note the ads on the back cover.

The earliest ad page for this series- 1872 is noted right below.

Books that note 25 cents on the top of the cover are mostly from 1873.

Thereafter the number of books in the Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series can be compared with the lists below.
31 books were published in 1873. The lists which noted 35-46 books were published between 1873 and 1875.

See the list below for other book title numbers and dates.

1872 15 titles

Wraps. Quarto Demi (9.125" x 10.75"). Six full page illustrations in colors. 25 cents

1873 31 titles

Wraps. Quarto Demi. Six full page illustrations 25 cents.
Sixteen titles were added in 1873.

35 title list
"In Press"

The 35 title list includes the books from 1872-1873 plus four volumes in press.

36 title list
Additions:

Deletions:
Alphabet of Farm Yard
Work Wide Fables
Alphabet in Rhymes
(The two alphabet books may not have been published)

35 from above with four additions and three deletions.

42 title list
36 + six new titles:

46 title list
Additions:

In press: (not counted in the list of 46)
Bears
Monkeys

Noted "in press" and not listed in the 42 title listing from above.
Henny Penny
Little Red Riding Hood

50 title list
1875-1876
This list notes 50 titles including the four "in press" from just above.

In press: (for several years now)

50 title list
1876-1877
Note that in the 1876 list that Henny Penny, Little Red Riding Hood, Bears and Monkeys were deleted and replaced with the three titles below

57 title list
1879
New titles:

(Previous "Domestic Animals" is still in the series.)

New Pictures In 1879
Visit of St. Nicholas

Deleted in 1879:
Humpty Dumpty Volume 1
Humpty Dumpty Volume 2
Home games for Little Boys
Home Games for Little Girls

58 title list
1880
Here is the 1880 list. Note that some books that were on the list previously are in the 1880 list but are not on the 1882 list. This may just mean that the title was not published in this particular year.

63 title list
1882-1888

Some examples from this series.
Note the earliest books are oblong 1872-1873 titles: