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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Girls Big Wonder Book: An Unusual Collection of Fables, Modern Stories and Old Time Tales: For Young People / 1932 |
| Date | 1932 |
| Record ID | 532293 |
| Collection Name | McLoughlin Collection |
| Reference | McL G5255 B592 1932 |
| Theme | Gender and Sex Leisure and Play Women in Publishing |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Indians of North America--Juvenile literature Women as illustrators Anthologies Housekeeping Animals Play |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse Fiction Fantasy and Fairy Tales |
| Publisher | McLoughlin Bros |
| Places | Massachusetts |
| Illustrator | Lupprian, Hildegard (1897-) André, Richard (1834-1907) Comstock, Frances Bassett (1881-1922) Davis, Georgina A (c.1852-1901) |
| Document Type | Anthology |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1932 Fairy tales--1932 Books for girls Anthologies Color printing (Printing)--Plates Pictorial bindings (Binding) Half-cloth bindings (Binding)--1932 Printed boards (Binding) Archival drawings Photomechanical prints |
| Size | [338+] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm |
| Page Numbers | 344 |
| Additional Notes | Chiefly fairy tales; includes two Native American stories: Little Star Flower and How the first bears came. Copyright 1932 by McLoughlin Bros. Inc. "This book was designed, printed and bound in Springfield, Massachusetts U.S.A."--verso of title page. Device of McLoughlin Bros., verso of title page is the image of an owl with the word "McLoughlin" superimposed on it and "1828" (the spurious establishment date of the firm) appearing to the left, surrounded by an oval frame. Plates printed in color by a photomechanical process; plates signed, "Hildegard" (i.e., Hildegard Lupprian); plates have nothing to do with the text. Textual illustrations signed by "Richard Andre?" (William Roger Snow), Frances Bassett Comstock and Georgina A. Davis. A watercolor drawing by Georgina A. Davis that is very similar to the illustration for Rumpelstiltskin is housed in the McLoughlin bros. Hosmer Archival Drawings and Prints, DOS Box 1, Folder 4. Cover design features a silhouette of a young girl in eighteenth-century costume working on a needlepoint piece. Partial Contents: Little Snowdrop; Little Star Flower; The cat who married a mouse; The straw, the coal, and the bean; The sleeping beauty; How the pigs can see the wind; The mouse, the bird, and the sausage; Tales about elves; The town musicians of Bremen; The three spinners; The seven crows; The wolf and the six little kids; The wedding of Mrs. Fox; The goose girl; Hansel and Grethel; Mr. Korbes; King Roughbeard; Snow White and Red Rose; The enchanted fawn; The frog prince; Rapunzel; The raven; A set of rogues; The tailor and the bear; The fire that would not burn; Cinderella; Little Red Riding Hood; Goody Two Shoes; Beauty and the beast; Una and the Red Cross Knight; Dust under the rug; The fisherman and his wife; Old sultan; How the first bears came; The little old woman who went to the north wind; Bertha with the big foot; Rumpelstiltskin; May and her dolls; When there is snow on the ground; In the swing. |
| Catalog Notes | Chiefly fairy tales; includes two Native American stories: Little Star Flower and How the first bears came. Copyright 1932 by McLoughlin Bros. Inc. "This book was designed, printed and bound in Springfield, Massachusetts U.S.A."--verso of title page. Device of McLoughlin Bros., verso of title page is the image of an owl with the word "McLoughlin" superimposed on it and "1828" (the spurious establishment date of the firm) appearing to the left, surrounded by an oval frame. Plates printed in color by a photomechanical process; plates signed, "Hildegard" (i.e., Hildegard Lupprian); plates have nothing to do with the text. Textual illustrations signed by "Richard AndreÌ" (William Roger Snow), Frances Bassett Comstock and Georgina A. Davis. A watercolor drawing by Georgina A. Davis that is very similar to the illustration for Rumpelstiltskin is housed in the McLoughlin bros. Hosmer Archival Drawings and Prints, DOS Box 1, Folder 4. Cover design features a silhouette of a young girl in eighteenth-century costume working on a needlepoint piece. |
| American Antiquarian Society Copy Notes | American Antiquarian Society copy lacks all after p. [338]; pages are brittle, and in some cases torn. The gift of Anne Fenske, 2016. Inscribed: Sharon Rose Goshen; David E. Goshen. |
| 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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