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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Down The River; Or, Buck Bradford And His Tyrants |
| Date | 1869 |
| Record ID | 219953 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Reference | CL O623 S796d 1869 |
| Theme | Travel Temperance and Addiction Crime and Punishment Women in Publishing |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Orphanages Children with disabilities Child abuse Brothers and sisters Young men Temperance Theft Runaway children Voyages and travels Rivers Courts Mississippi River |
| Genre | Adventure |
| Author | Optic, Oliver (1822-1897) |
| Publisher | Optic, Oliver (1822-1897) Lee and Shepard Boston Stereotype Foundry |
| Places | United States; Boston |
| Illustrator | Nast, Thomas (1840-1902) Kilburn, Samuel Smith Varley, Robert |
| Document Type | Novel |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1869 Juvenile novels Publishers' advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston Relief prints Blocked bindings (Binding) Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1869 Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) Ink stamps (Provenance) |
| Size | 303, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates ; 18 cm |
| Catalog Notes | "'Down the river' is the sixth of the continued stories published in 'Our boys and girls' and the last of 'The starry flag series.' It is the personal narrative of Buck Bradford, who, with his deformed sister, made an eventful voyage down the Wisconsin and Mississippi rivers, to New Orleans"--Preface, p. 5, signed by William T. Adams, and dated at Harrison Square, Mass., October 28, 1868. By William Taylor Adams (i.e., "Oliver Optic"). Copyright 1868 by William T. Adams. "Stereotyped at the Boston Stereotype Foundry, no. 19 Spring Lane."--verso of title page. Last page blank. In purple cloth. Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by Samuel Smith Kilburn, Thomas Nast, and Robert Varley. "The starry flag series"--series title, and numbered list, p. [4]. "Oliver Optic's starry flag series."--second plate. |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
| Copyright and Source Archive | Content compilation (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |
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