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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Louisa and the Little Birds |
| Date | c.1848 |
| Record ID | 218698 |
| Collection Name | Chapbooks |
| Reference | CL-PamA5125L8881848b |
| Theme | Animals and Nature Morality, Manners and Consequences Family and Relationships |
| Library of Congress Subject | Sunday school literature French Animal welfare Birds |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Publisher | American Tract Society |
| Places | New York |
| Illustrator | Strother, David Hunter |
| Document Type | Chapbook Pamphlet |
| Book Type | Relief prints Printed wrappers (Binding) Juvenile literature--1848 Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Chapbooks--1848 Color printing (Printing) |
| Size | 16 p. : ill. ; 11 cm |
| Page Numbers | 16 p. : |
| Catalog Notes | An adaptation and translation from one of the tales in Arnaud Berquin's L'ami des enfants. Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books. 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. Caption title: Louisa's tenderness to the little birds in winter. At foot of title page: 14. 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. In printed wrapper; wrapper printed in green ink. Frontispiece engraved on wood by Robert Roberts after a design by David Hunter Strother. Other wood engravings by William Howland. Cf. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870. Wrapper wood engraving signed by William Howland. Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper. |
| 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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