28 pages; Boston: Very Good-. 1880. First Edition. 28 pages; Contents clean and complete in original pictorial boards, color illustration on front board by Francis G. Attwood, general light dust soiling, paper along backstrip chipped away; edges rubbed and worn, lower right corner of front board chipped off; same corner of first several leaves chipped. The illuminated cover is printed in multiple colors and is signed by the Heliotype Printing Co. , Boston. The interior monochrome illustrations are probably also by them. Monochrome illustrations throughout by Attwood, including the famous early baseball scene on page 15 (lacking in later editions) . Two pages of publisher's ads (first leaf) Dedication page reads "To The Labored Wits of The Harvard Lampoon, This Moral Tale is dedicated by the Authors. " OCLC 6480764 This delightful parody of Jacob Abbott's Rollo books series was originally published in issues of the Harvard Lampoon 1879-1880. This first book edition was published in 1880 by A. Williams & Co. The front board also bears the imprint of C. T. Dillingham, New York. "Four college generations, each of four years, have passed away since Rollo first journeyed to Cambridge, so that the little book may interest the antiquarian, and it certainly will aid instructors of the young in conveying the moralities to their charges. " This work was the brain child of F. J. Stimson, John T. Wheelwright, and Francis G. Attwood; all among the original founders of the Harvard Lampoon. Unlike the well behave lad of the Jacob Abbott series, this Rollo is a bit of a wild child ensnared by a seemingly endless pecadillos, involving smoking, pranking, cribbing, teasing and generally larking about. Rollo's uncle gets drunk, his mother gets a divorce, etc. The fifteen year old is readying to take college entrance exams in Cambridge, but is thwarted in his ambition, eventually being tried and found guilty of manslaughter and consequently hung! .; Illustrated Books, Humor or Humour, Most Recent Listing
