Memoirs of a doll : written by herself : a New Year's gift

Date:

1854.

Author:

Besset, Jane M.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH B557 M46 1854Z LOCAL

Publisher:

G. Routledge

Physical Description:

xvi, 176 pages [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:

"New Edition"--t.p. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

George Routledge (London), 'new edition' [1854], inscribed 1873; an adaptation ( with 'trifling' changes into an English setting, of Mémoires d'une poupée, contes dédiés aux petites filles, 1st published circa 1840, by Julie Gouraud (1810-1891] who also used the pen name 'Louise d'Aulnay'; includes translation of Gouraud's tongue-in-cheek preface to the first French edition; the illustrations, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers, are signed with a JG monogram; spine titles and title design stamped in gold on blue cloth; spine and front cover overall design stamped in black, cameo color illustration pasted as vignette in gold stamped setting, back cover design blind stamped

Subjects:

Children's stories and Children's stories

Genres/Forms:

Fiction and Juvenile works