Stories from old-fashioned children's books

Date:

1899-1900.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH S884 F76 1899 LOCAL

Publisher:

Leadenhall Press ;

Abstract:

An anthology of short stories and poetry, particularly stories with morals, collected from the literature read by children of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Physical Description:

xv, 439, [19] pages : illustrations (1 color) ; 20 cm

Notes:

Special Collections' copy inscribed, 1899. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1899-1900 Leadenhall Press (London)/ Scribner's (NY) imprint, inscribed 1899 by Tuer to the book's owner Miss H. de Lessert; book is 'adorned with 250 amusing cuts' and included, in a separate enclosure, is a loose manuscript letter, dated 6 Dec.1898, from Tuer to de Lessert; bound in is a twenty-page catalog for the Press and also an eight-page advertisdement for 'Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books (1898-9)'; spine titles and rulings and front cover titles, decoration and vignette stamped in gold on blue cloth

Subjects:

Children's literature, Poetry, Short stories, and Children's literature

Genres/Forms:

Didactic fiction, Children's stories, Children's poetry, Didactic fiction. lcgft, Short stories Juvenile, Didactic fiction Juvenile, Fiction, Juvenile works, Poetry, and Bookplates (Provenance) United States 20th century Specimens. rbprov