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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Idle Girl |
| Date | c.1828-1843 |
| Record ID | 255385 |
| Collection Name | Chapbooks |
| Reference | CL-PamI182G52551828a |
| Theme | Leisure and Play Education and Didactic Texts Morality, Manners and Consequences |
| Library of Congress Subject | Girls School children Pride and vanity Fashion |
| Genre | Life Skills Texts Poetry and Verse |
| Publisher | Turner, Elisha (c.1802-1843) |
| Places | Northampton |
| Document Type | Chapbook Pamphlet |
| Book Type | Relief prints Printed wrappers (Binding) Juvenile literature--1828 Chapbooks--1828 Poems--1828 Bookplates (Provenance) |
| Size | [16] p. : ill. ; 10 cm |
| Page Numbers | [16] p. : |
| Catalog Notes | Cover imprint varies: A. Phelps--Greenfield. Elisha Turner is known to have been active as a publisher as early as 1828. Turner died at age 41 on May 13, 1843. See the Hampshire gazette, May 16, 1843. Ansel Phelps was a newspaper publisher in Greenfield, Mass. between 1811 and 1868. He was last listed as a bookseller in the Massachusetts state directory for 1855. Variant states: one state bears numeral "9" at head p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a standing man with a camel in the background; wood engraving of a girl feeding chickens appears on p. [4] of wrapper. Another state bears numeral "1" at head of p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a bunch of grapes; a wood engraving of a cat and a dog appear on p. [4] of wrapper. Pagination: [3], 6-18 p. "Pride mortified."--poem, p. 16-18 (i.e., p. [14-16]). |
| Library/Archive | American Antiquarian Society |
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