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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | A Treasury of Pleasure Books For Young People / c.1864-1865 |
| Date | c.1864-1865 |
| Record ID | 221853 |
| Collection Name | Alphabet Books |
| Reference | CLT784O311864 |
| Theme | Animals and Nature Education and Didactic Texts Family and Relationships |
| Library of Congress Subject | Poetry Children Animals Little Bo-Peep |
| Genre | Pedagogical Texts Poetry and Verse Fantasy and Fairy Tales |
| Publisher | Hurd & Houghton |
| Places | New York |
| Illustrator | Absolon, John (1815-1895) Weir, Harrison (1824-1906) |
| Document Type | Alphabet Book Primer |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1864 Alphabet books--1864 Folk tales--1864 Nursery rhymes--1864 Fairy tales--1864 Poems--1864 Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1864 Gold blocked bindings (Binding) Color printing (Printing) Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Relief prints |
| Size | [180], 3-14 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 19 cm |
| Catalog Notes | From London editions edited by Joseph Cundall. Copy in hand bears inscription dated 1864. In red cloth. Wood-engravings printed in colors. Many of the illustrations are the same as those in the 1853 D. Appleton edition, which are there credited on the title page to John Absolon and Harrison Weir. |
| Linked Documents |
A Treasury of Pleasure Books For Young Children: With More Than One Hundred Illustrations By John Absolon and Harrison Weir |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |