Scenes in the life of Saint John : in easy verse : with brilliant illuminations, from original designs, printed in oil colours by Hogan & Thompson.

Date:

1850.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH S289 I6 1850 local

Publisher:

Hogan & Thompson

Physical Description:

56 pages, 3 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 17 cm.

Series:

The Good child's library ; 3rd bk. and Good child's library ; 3rd bk.

Notes:

Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1863. local

Curator Notes:

1850 Hogan & Thompson (Philadelphia) imprint, c 1850, inscribed 1863; The Good Child's Library, Third Book; preface says ' these pictures are printed in Oil Colours–an expensive, but a finished and highly artistical process, of which the publishers are the originators in this country'; copy has just 3 color plates, lacks frontispiece; spine titles and front cover titles, design and vignette stamped in gold on brown cloth, back cover design blind stamped

Subjects:

Saints Legends Juvenile poetry and Saints

Genres/Forms:

Children's poetry 1850, Juvenile works, Poetry, Biographies 1850. rbgenr, and Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) 1850. rbbin

Names:

John, the Apostle, Saint Juvenile poetry and John, the Apostle, Saint