Cobb’s Toys: Third Series, Stories about the Bear, Zebra, Lynx, Wild Boar, Walrus, Sloth and Anteater.

• Main Author: Cobb, Lyman
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: KnightScholar 1835
• Subjects: Lynx; walrus*
• Online Access: https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/historical-reprints/26; https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/context/historical-reprints/article/1025/viewcontent/.pdf

Lyman Cobb’s Toys is a collection of tiny books for tiny people. Priced at three cents and consisting of only sixteen pages, these children’s works are slight enough to fit in even the smallest of pockets. In the third volume of the third series, Cobb describes animals both common and exotic to an audience he lovingly refers to as his “young friends,†taking great care not to use words with more than three syllables. But what the booklet lacks in size (and syllables), it makes up for in personality. Cobb’s descriptions of animals like the bear, zebra, and anteater are fun and meandering if not occasionally poetic, and the accompanying engravings are not without their charm either. After a few short pages, it becomes readily apparent why Cobb’s works were so popular in the 1800s. (summary written by Daniel Ross https://knightscholar.geneseo.edu/historical-reprints/1025/thumbnail.jpg