The sailor boy, or, Jack Somers in the navy : a story of the Great Rebellion

Date:

1865.

Author:

Optic, Oliver, 1822-1897.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH O62 S3 LOCAL

Publisher:

Lee and Shepard (successors to Phillips, Sampson & Co.)

Physical Description:

336 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm

Custodial History:

LC copy has inscription: Willie Pearson, from his father, Saturday, October 21st, 1865. DLC

Series:

Army and navy stories ; II

Notes:

In original publisher's binding: blue cloth with a border stamped in blind on boards; title, author, and illustration of a young sailor on board ship stamped in gilt on spine.

Curator Notes:

1876 Lee and Shepard (Boston)/ Lee, Shepard, and Dillingham (NY) imprint, c 1867; pp 15-16 missing; Starry Flag Series v4; spine title-field and decoration stamped in gold on red cloth, front and back cover decoration and rulings blind-stamped

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile literature 1865. rbgenr, Fiction, History, and Juvenile works

Chronological Terms:

1861-1865 fast

Geographic Terms:

United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Juvenile fiction and United States