Grandma's attic treasures : a story of old-time memories

Date:

©1881.

Author:

Brine, Mary D. (Mary Dow)

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH B858 G73 1881 LOCAL

Publisher:

E.P. Dutton

Abstract:

In verse, a grandmother tells her granddaughter about the day two men came to buy her "antique" furniture, which she thinks of as "a heap of rubbidge." She sells the lot for fifty dollars, only to discover that her granddaughter has bought just one of the items, a her table, for fifty dollars from a New York antique dealer. She then realizes how much the old things mean to her compared with their value to the men who have cheated her of her money and her memories.

Physical Description:

94 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:

Poem. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

Dutton (NY: 31 W. 23d St),c 1881, later printing (after 1885 indicated by address), without color lithographs; 'the book is prepared and the illustrations engraved by George T. Andrew,' the original artists are C.A. Northam, J. Francis Murphy, W.P. Snyder,Edmund H. Garrett, W.A. Rogers and W.F. Halsall; bound in white half-leather with titles stamped in gold on front left panel, color illustration printed on paper pasted on right front cover

Subjects:

Grandmothers Juvenile poetry, Antiques Juvenile poetry, Dreams Juvenile poetry, Husband and wife Juvenile poetry, Antiques, Dreams, Grandmothers, and Husband and wife

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile works and Poetry