Dikes and ditches, or, Young America in Holland and Belgium : a story of travel and adventure

Date:

1868.

Author:

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH O62 D5 LOCAL

Publisher:

Lee and Shepard

Physical Description:

346 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : llustrations ; 18 cm.

Custodial History:

LC copy has the bookplate of Philip Greely Brown. DLC

Series:

Young America abroad. First series ; 4 and Young America abroad. First series ; 4.

Notes:

In original publisher's binding: green pebble-grain cloth with a border stamped in blind on boards; series title, author, title, and decoration stamped in gilt on spine.

Curator Notes:

1863 Lee & Shepard imprint ('successors to Phillips, Sampson & Co.'), c 1862; this must be a fairly early L&S edition (these books were, according to Kilgour's history of L&S, the second version of these titles, reissued with attractive new bindings and illustrations by Hammatt Billings); The Riverdale Books (series title page: Riverdale Story Books); front and back covers blind-stamped on red cloth, spine titles and decoration stamped in gold

Subjects:

Children's stories, Adventure stories, Seafaring life Juvenile fiction, Schools Juvenile fiction, Sailors Juvenile fiction, Educators Juvenile fiction, School discipline Juvenile fiction, Young men Juvenile fiction, Money Juvenile fiction, Voyages and travels, Adventure stories, Children's stories, Educators, Money, Sailors, School discipline, Schools, Seafaring life, Travel, Voyages and travels, and Young men

Genres/Forms:

Fiction, History, Juvenile works, Relief prints. gmgpc, Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) 1868. rbbin, and Juvenile literature 1868. rbgenr

Geographic Terms:

Belgium Description and travel, Belgium History, Netherlands Description and travel, Netherlands History, Belgium Description and travel Fiction, Netherlands Description and travel Fiction, Netherlands Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Belgium Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Netherlands Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Belgium Description and travel Juvenile fiction, Belgium, and Netherlands