Forgotten books of the American nursery : a history of the development of the American story-book / by Rosalie V. Halsey

Author: Halsey, Rosalie Vrylina
Additional Titles: History of the development of the American story-book
Published: Boston : Charles E. Goodspeed & Co., 1911.
Copyright Date: ©1911
Physical Description: viii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 244 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 25 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Additional Creators: Updike, Daniel Berkeley, 1860-1941, Merrymount Press, and Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)

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Introductory -- The play-book in England -- Newbery's books in America -- Patriotic printers and the American Newbery -- The child and his book at the end of the eighteenth century -- Toy-books in the early nineteenth century -- American writers and English critics.

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"Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911, by D.B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press, Boston."

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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