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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Child's Book of American Geography: Designed as an Easy and Entertaining Work For the Use of Beginners: With Sixty Engravings, and Eighteen Maps, as Follows: [Six Lines Of Text] |
| Date | 1832 |
| Record ID | 231345 |
| Collection Name | School Books |
| Reference | SB Geog. G655c 1832 |
| Theme | Nationality and Place Education and Didactic Texts War and Revolution Race, Ethnicity and Racism Travel Animals and Nature |
| Library of Congress Subject | Geography Costume Printed boards Quarter bindings Maps Textbooks |
| Genre | Non-Fiction Pedagogical Texts |
| Author | Goodrich, Samuel Griswold (1793-1860) |
| Publisher | Carter and Hendee |
| Places | Massachusetts |
| Document Type | Atlas/Geography Book |
| Book Type | Intaglio prints Relief prints Printed boards (Binding) Quarter bindings (Binding) Juvenile literature--1832 Maps Publishers' advertisements--Massachusetts--Boston Textbooks |
| Size | 64 p., [16] leaves of plates : ill., maps ; 18 cm |
| Page Numbers | 80 |
| Additional Notes | P, engraver; Bowen, Abel (1790-1850), engraver; Brown, George Loring (1814-1889), engraver; Boynton, George W (-1884), engraver. |
| Catalog Notes | Includes study questions. Apparently by Samuel G. Goodrich. According to his Recollections (v. 2, p. 539, Goodrich issued his Child's own book of geography (two vols. dedicated each to the eastern and western hemispheres) in 1834. Cover transcription varies: The child's own book of American geography. By the author of Peter Parley's tales. With sixty engravings and eighteen maps. Boston: published by Waitt & Dow. 1832. Copyright 1831 by Samuel G. Goodrich. Each paragraph numbered. Metal-engraved maps. "Entered according to act of Congress on this 9th. day of March by S. Goodrich of Massachusetts."--at foot of first plate. Plates signed by engraver George Boynton. Textual wood engravings variously signed by George Loring Brown and "P." Cover wood engraving signed by Abel Bowen. Publisher's advertisement, lower cover. |
| American Antiquarian Society Copy Notes | American Antiquarian Society copy maps hand-colored (stenciled?) |
| 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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