Adventures every child should know The Marvelous adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Lorenzini

Full Record:

1909 [1909]. [Collodi]. Adventures every child should know. The Marvelous adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Lorenzini. Ed. by Mary E. Burt from an original translation by Augustus G. Caprani. Illus. by Emily Hall Chamberlin

Date:

1909 [1909]

Author:

[Collodi]

Illustrator:

Illus. by Emily Hall Chamberlin

Editor:

Ed. by Mary E. Burt from an original translation by Augustus G. Caprani

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Curator Notes:

gift [wunderlich-PINbacklog]; 1909 Doubleday, Page imprint, c 1909, inscribed Dec. 1909, [1st printing: according to a personal note from Wunderlich 'aside from being excerpted for 1 or 2 school readers in the teens, so far as I know it was printed only a second time by George Sully & Company in 1918']; Every Child Should Know series (ECSK); binding title is 'Adventures Every Child Should Know/ Pinocchio'; Burt's preface says that in 1902 she was in Florence and 'went to the publishers who agreed to sell me the right to bring out a translation in America, so this books is not pirated'; the translation and editing seems to have been accomplished between 1904 and 1908; spine and front cover titles stamped in white on green cloth, spine and front cover vignettes stamped in white and black

Subjects:

Fantasy stories, Puppets as characters, Boys' stories, Mischievous children, Fathers and sons, Growing up stories, Italy, Translations from Italian, Illustrated editions - color plates - monochrome - ink drawings, Illustrated editions - endpapers - patterned - color, and Exhibit items - binding