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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Books For Children Vol 1 |
| Date | c.1848 |
| Record ID | 214552 |
| Collection Name | Religious Tracts |
| Reference | CLA5125B72431848 |
| Theme | Family and Relationships Poverty, Debt and Welfare Religion |
| Library of Congress Subject | Sunday school literature French Poetry Children Orphans Christian poetry Conversion Regeneration (Theology) Widows Widows Blacks Bread Bible stories Soldiers Animal welfare Women as authors |
| Genre | Fiction Religious Works |
| Publisher | American Tract Society |
| Places | New York |
| Document Type | Anthology Religious Tract |
| Book Type | Relief prints Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1848 Juvenile literature--1848 Catechisms Poems--1848 Hymns Bookplates (Provenance) Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Illegible markings (Provenance) |
| Size | 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 12 cm |
| Page Numbers | 1 v. (various pagings) |
| Additional Notes | 151 Nassau-Street, New York |
| Catalog Notes | A collection of sixteen tracts, all published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau St., New York, each with separate title page. Most of the tracts in this collection were first issued under the title, The publications of the American Tract Society. Series II Vol. I. Title and volume number transcribed from spine. Imprint statement transcribed from title page of first tract in the collection, Address to a child. Variant issues: issue in hand has the contents leaf set in type 4 mm. tall; a single score line appears only above "Vol. I" on the leaf. Another issue has the contents leaf set in type 2 mm. tall; single curvy lines appear above and below "Vol. I." on the leaf. The American Tract Society was first located at 150 Nassau St., New York, in 1832. A new typeface was introduced in 1848. The American Antiquarian Society copy is printed in the new typeface. Collective title and contents page, [2] leaves at beginning. In black cloth. Some wood engravings signed by Robert Roberts, William Howland, and "Strother del." (i.e., David Hunter Strother). "Address to a child."--16 p. "The Shepherd."--Hymn, p. 16. "The goodness of Providence illustrated."--16 p. "The vine."--16 p. "The orphan."--16 p. "The child's catechism, in verse."--16 p. "The Christian drummer."--16 p. "The wonderful cure of Naaman, a general in the Syrian army."--16 p. "Lines on the above, by Rev. John Newton."--p. 14-16. "The African widow. Supposed to have been written by the late Rev. Legh Richmond."--16 p. Introduction signed: L.R. [i.e., Legh Richmond?]. Edition of The African widow published in Dedham, Mass. in 1816 by H. & W.H. Mann has the title page attribution to Joseph Dixon. "Mary Jones; or, The soldier's daughter."--16 p. "Anne Walsh."--16 p. "Bible happiness; or, Comfort in affliction."--16 p. "Honesty the best policy."--16 p. "The farmer and soldier. By Mrs. L.H. Sigourney."--16 p. "Louisa and the little birds."--16 p. Translation of one of the stories in M. Berquin's L'ami des enfants. Possibly adapted and translated by Richard Johnson. See M.J.P. Weedon, "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery" The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 55. Also published as: Louisa's tenderness to the little birds in winter. "Advice to Sabbath-school children."--16 p. "Bread the staff of life."--16 p. |
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