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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Rollo Learning To Read |
| Date | 1862 |
| Record ID | 213462 |
| Collection Name | Theme Based Selections |
| Sub Collection | Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators |
| Reference | CL A132 R745 1862 |
| Theme | Education and Didactic Texts Leisure and Play Animals and Nature |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Education Children--Books and reading Conduct of life Insects Animals Hunting Play Pets Readers Prayer |
| Genre | Life Skills Texts |
| Author | Abbott, Jacob (c.1803-1879) |
| Publisher | Sheldon & Company Phillips, Sampson & Company |
| Places | United States; New York |
| Illustrator | Baker, William Jay |
| Document Type | Novel |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1862 Readers Prayers Publishers' advertisements--New York (State)--New York Relief prints Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1862 Bookplates (Provenance) |
| Size | [3], vi, [3], 10-180, [6] p., [1] leaf : ill. ; 16 cm |
| Additional Notes | The Rollo Series Is Composed Of Fourteen Volumes, Viz Rollo Learning To Talk Rollo Learning To Read Rollo At Work Rollo At Play Rollo At School Rollo's Vacation Rollo's Experiments Rollo's Museum Rollo's Travels Rollo's Correspondence Rollo's Philosophy--Water Rollo's Philosophy--Air Rollo's Philosophy--Fire Rollo's Philosophy--Sky |
| Catalog Notes | "This little work and its predecessor, 'Rollo learning to talk,' have been written ... The author's design here has been, first to interest the little reader, hoping, by this interest, to allure him on to the encounter of the difficulties in the language, and to the conquest of them."--Notice to the parents, p. [v]-vi, signed: J.A. Includes a prayer. Spine title: Read. By Jacob Abbott. Massachusetts copyright 1855 by Phillips, Sampson, & Co. Error in pagination: p. 10-174 misnumbered 10-79, [1], 83-92, 95-168, 171-180. Text is complete. One illustrated leaf not included in pagination but conjugate with textual gathering. In rose cloth. Plates engraved on wood; some engravings signed by William Jay Baker. "The Rollo books. By Jacob Abbott."--series title, p. [4] at end. "Books published by Sheldon & Co."--advertisement, [6] p. at end. "14 vols. Illustrated, uniform style. 16 mo. Cloth, each 50 cents. 14 vols., uniform style. 18 mo., cheap edition [Cloth,] each 38 cents."--p. [4] at end. |
| Linked Documents |
Rollo Learning To Talk Rollo's Correspondence Rollo's Vacation / c.1855 Rollo's Vacation / 1861 Rollo On The Rhine Rollo In Paris Rollo's Tour In Europe Rollo On the Atlantic |
| 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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