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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | The Silver Buckle; or The Silent Monitor |
| Date | 1839-1845 |
| Record ID | 230819 |
| Collection Name | Chapbooks |
| Reference | CL-PamG12S5871839 |
| Theme | Religion Education and Didactic Texts Illness and Death |
| Library of Congress Subject | School children Conscience Sick children Children and death Boarding schools Truthfulness and falsehood |
| Genre | Religious Works |
| Publisher | Mahlon Day |
| Places | New-York |
| Document Type | Chapbook Pamphlet |
| Book Type | Juvenile literature--1839 Poems--1839 Hymns Chapbooks--1839 Printed wrappers (Binding) Relief prints Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) |
| Size | 16 p. : ill. ; 12 cm |
| Page Numbers | 16 p. : |
| Catalog Notes | Title and imprint statement from printed wrapper. Signed, p. 12, "G.J.E." "A valuable Friend, who has in many ways employed her pen to edify and entertain children, sent me the foregoing piece called the 'Silver buckle, or The silent monitor,' with the following remark: ... 'The inclosed coming to my hand, I felt inclined to offer it to thee as a scrap for a place in some of thy small publications.' A.M."--p. 13. The firm Mahlon Day & Co. is listed at 374 Pearl St. in the New York directories for 1839 to 1845. Page 13 misnumbered 1. Includes two letters, p. 14-16, the first dated January 10th, 1836. The second describes the death of a child and is signed F.A.J. "Hymn."--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. |
| Catalog Record Note | Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved. |