A Little pretty pocket-book
- Date:
- 1966.
- Collecting Area:
- Mathes Childrens Literature
- Call Number:
- YH L778 P4 1966 LOCAL
- Publisher:
- Oxford U.P.
- Abstract:
- A Little Pretty Pocket-Book is generally considered the first children's book, and consists of simple rhymes for each of the letters of the alphabet. To market the book to the children of the day, the book came with either a ball or a pincushion, depending on which gender the child is. The book was very popular in England, and earned Newbery much fame; eventually the Newbery Medal was named after him. The book was re-published in Colonial America in 1762. The book includes a woodcut of stool-ball among other period games, and includes a rhyme entitled "Base-Ball." This is the first known reference to "base-ball" or "baseball" in print, though it actually meant the game rounders, an ancestor of modern baseball. Of baseball's English origin: "The game of Rounders has been played in England since Tudor Times, with the earliest reference being in 1744 in "A Little Pretty Pocketbook" where it is called baseball. It is a striking and fielding team game, which involves hitting a small hard leather cased ball with a round wooden or metal bat and then running around 4 bases in order to score. (National Rounders Association)"-- Wikipedia.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 184 pages : facsimiles ; 18 cm.
- Series:
- Juvenile library and Juvenile library (Oxford University Press)
- Notes:
- At head of title: John Newbery. LOCAL
- Curator Notes:
- 1966 Oxford Univ. Press imprint, c 1966, a facsimile reprint of the 1767 J. Newbery (London) edition of A Little Pretty-Pocket-Book, Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy, and Pretty Miss Polly [which was first published in 1744]; front and back cover have printed panels of flowered and gilt paper, to illustrate the style of the the early Newbery bindings
- Subjects:
- Games Early works to 1800, Games Juvenile literature, Etiquette for children and teenagers, Readers (Primary) Early works to 1800, Etiquette for children and teenagers, Games, Readers (Primary), Games, and Etiquette
- Genres/Forms:
- Early works, Juvenile works, Readers (Primary), and Readers (Primary)
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