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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Editha's Burglar: A Story For Children [First Edition] |
| Date | 1888 |
| Record ID | 140677 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Sub Collection | Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators |
| Reference | First Eds. Burnett |
| Theme | Crime and Punishment Women in Publishing |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Conduct of life Girls Burglars Parent and child Kindness Wit and humor, Juvenile Women as authors |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Description | First appeared in St. Nicholas, February, 1880. Copyright 1888 by Jordan, Marsh & Co. "Rand Avery Company, electrotypers and printers, Boston." Verso of title page. Has printer's device consisting of an owl's head with a quill pen in its beak. Illustrations signed by Henry Sandham, "J.P. Murphy Co.," and "Kurtz" (i.e., photoengraver William Kurtz?). Illustrations produced by a photomechanical process; photographic image of a girl frontispiece has caption: Original photography of little Elsie Leslie. Facsimile of handwritten letter to the publisher from Elsie Leslie, a child actress who was currently playing the character of Editha in Boston. Letter dated March 25, 1888. "Jordan, Marsh &Co., publishers." Advertisements, leaf following p. 64. |
| Author | Burnett, Frances Hodgson (1849-1924) |
| Publisher | Jordan, Marsh and Company Rand, Avery & Co JP Murphy Co |
| Places | United States; Boston |
| Illustrator | Leslie, Elsie (1881-1966) Sandham, Henry (1842-1910) Kurtz, William (1833-1904) |
| Document Type | Novel |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1888 Juvenile novels Publishers' advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1888 Gold stamped cloth (Binding) Black stamped cloth (Binding) Photomechanical prints Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) |
| Page Numbers | 64 p., [1] leaf : ill., facsims. ; 19 cm |
| Additional Notes | Boston: Jordan, Marsh & Company, 1888 |
| American Antiquarian Society Copy Notes | American Antiquarian Society copy given in memory of Roswell Skeel, Jr., 1926. Inscribed: Harold Manning from cousin Hattie. |
| 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. |