Good little boy's book : the well-behaved little boy, attentive little boy, inattentive little boy, dilatory little boy, exact little boy, quarrelsome little boy, good little boy

Date:

[1842?]

Author:

Corner, Miss (Julia), 1798-1875.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH G646 L57 1842 local

Publisher:

Published by Edwd. Dunigan, 137 Fulton Street

Physical Description:

62 pages : illustrations ; 15 cm

Series:

Little boy's & girl's library (New York, N.Y.)

Notes:

"Stereotyped by Vincent L. Dill, 128 Fulton-street, New York"--Colophon. local

Curator Notes:

Edward Dunigan (NY, 137 Fulton St.), n.d. 14cm, 62pp [i.e. 60pp]; [text first published 1842; firm at this address 1839-1843, so this is an early printing]; [The Little Boy's and Girl's Library, no. 2; this series went out of print after 1849, originally based on a series published in London by Dean and Munday, it was reissued by John McLoughlin in the 1850's]; includes 'The Well-Behaved Little Boy, The Attentive Little Boy, The Inattentive Little Boy, The Covetous Little Boy, the Dilatory Little Boy, the Exact Little Boy, The Quarrelsome Little Boy, The Good Little Boy'; running head is Sketches of Little Boys; the introduction and conclusion by the 'author' is signed 'Thomas Lovechild'; this early printing does not have the elaborate front cover of the later printings; spine titles, front cover titles and decoration, and back cover advertisement, printed in black on peach colored paper over stiff paper wrappers

Subjects:

Boys Conduct of life Juvenile literature and Boys Conduct of life

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile literature New York (State) New York 1842. rbgenr and Juvenile works