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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Boys Easy Word Story Book / 1912-1918 |
| Date | 1912-1918 |
| Record ID | 552413 |
| Reference | McL B793 E13 1912 |
| Theme | Race, Ethnicity and Racism Gender and Sex Leisure and Play |
| Library of Congress Subject | Children's stories Children's poetry Conduct of life Play Sex role Animals Dogs Cows Christmas Child labor Horses Lion Elephants Goats Squirrels Cats German Americans Swimming Skating Shoe shiners Invalids April Fools' Day Child Musicians Missing children Bees Seals (Animals) Aboriginal Australians Pullman cars African American men Storks Frogs Mice Telephone Street vendors Balloons Eagles Bicycles Tiger Country life Housekeeping Swine Dreams Household employees Dolls Children's accidents Poor Wealth Birthdays Winter Hermits Anger Chickens Giants Ocean Kites Electric railroads Time Seasons Trees Grandmothers Twins Women as illustrators |
| Genre | Poetry and Verse Fiction |
| Publisher | McLoughlin Bros |
| Places | New York |
| Illustrator | Ives, Sarah Noble (1864-1944) A H Groome, William H C Copeland Russell, Walter (1871-1963) Sheppard, William Ludwell (1833-1912) Trow, G Barnes, Culmer Copping, Harold (1863-1932) Gallagher, Sears (1869-1955) Seaverns, Alexander H Jameson, Rosa Kirk, Maria Louise (1860-1938) Smith, H Monro Hirschberg, Carl (1854-1923) Hazelton, Mary Brewster Rainey, William (1852-1936) Barnes, Robert (1840-1895) Laskey, Howard Gilman (1858-1905) Hardy, Paul (1862-1942) H M B Bacon, John H Johnstone, H J P T Shute, A B Lyon, A F Moran, Avis Taylor, Richard Berkeley, Stanley Wain, Louis (1860-1939) M I D Naumann, P A W Chapin, John Reuben (1823-1894) Woodbury, Marcia Oakes (1865-1913) Walcott, Jessie McDermott W Norton, L D Knowles, George Sheridan Lawson, Lizzie Weir, Harrison (1824-1906) Scannell, Edith Sharp, H Pruett (1853-1905) C F S Momberger, William (1829-) |
| Document Type | Anthology |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1812 Books for boys Anthologies Poems--1912 Proverbs Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding)--1912 Paper binding labels (Binding) Pictorial bindings (Binding) Black stamped cloth (Binding) Chromolithographs Photomechanical prints Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) |
| Size | 185, [7], [200] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm |
| Page Numbers | 185, [7], [200] p., [8] leaves of plates ill. (some col.) 27 cm |
| Catalog Notes | Stories and poems with pictures. Multi-syllabic words divided. "No. 2578.--Boy's easy word word [sic] story book[.] Retail 35c. By mail 50c[.] Size, 8 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches[.] This book contains 192 pages of boys' stories all well illustrated; also 4 colored pictures. ... Put up in 1/2 dozens ... No. 2581.--Easy-to-read story book[.] Retail 35c, by mail 50 c[.] This book has 4 colored pages and 192 pages of selected pictures and stories ... Put up in 1/2 dozens"--McLoughlin Bros.' catalogue (ca. 1912), p. 59. Copy in hand has a presentation inscription dated 1918. "The easy-to-read story book with four colored plates and numerous black-and-white illustrations[.] McLoughlin Bros. New-York."--[200] p., third count, with separate title page. Full-cover pictorial label and plates chromolithographed. Art Nouveau cover design looks like the work of illustrator Sarah Noble Ives. Textual illustrations produced by a photomechanical process; signed by "A.H.," W.H.C. Groome, Copeland, W.B. Russell, "W.L.S." (i.e., William Ludwell Sheppard), G. Trow, Culmer Barnes, Harold Copping, Sears Gallagher, A.H. Seaverns, Rosa Jameson, M.L. Kirk, "A. Monro Smith 1889," Carl Hirschberg, "M.B.H." (i.e., Mary Brewster Hazelton), W. Rainey, R. Barnes, H.G, Laskey, Paul Hardy, "H.M.B.," John H. Bacon, "Emily J. H[--]," H. J. Johnstone, "P.T.," A.B. Shute, A.F. Lydon, Avis Moran, R. Taylor, Stanley Berkeley, Louis Wain, "M.I.D.," "P. Naumann sc.," W.B. Russell, "A.W.," "J.R.C." (i.e., John Reuben Chapin), Marcia Oakes Woodbury, "J.McD." (i.e., Jessie McDermott Walcott), "W.," L.D. Norton, Sheridan Knowles (i.e., George Sheridan Knowles), "L.L." (i.e., Lizzie Lawson), Harrison Weir, Edith Scannell, H. Pruett Sharp, "C.F.S.," and William Momberger. Chromolithographed plates have the following captions: Work is better than play. A kind master. The old oaken bucket. Prepared to meet the enemy. Tobogganing. At play in the harvest field. Rescuing dolly from drowning. Dolly and her mother receive a stately visitor. |
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