Forgotten Books of the American Nursery. Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
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Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664600356
Table of Contents
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery
The Child and his Book at the End of the Century
Toy-Books in the Early Nineteenth Century
American Writers and English Critics
ILLUSTRATIONS
| The Devil and the Disobedient Child | Frontispiece |
| From “The Prodigal Daughter.” Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5, Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?] | |
| Facing Page | |
| The Devil appears as a French Gentleman | 26 |
| From “The Prodigal Daughter.” Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5, Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?] | |
| Title-page from “The Child’s New Play-thing” | 44 |
| Printed by J. Draper; J. Edwards in Boston [1750]. Now in the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations | |
| Title-page from “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book” | 47 |
| Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations | |
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