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Louisa and the little birds
Title
Louisa and the little birds.
Published
[New York] : Published by the American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, New York, [not before 1848?]
Physical Description
16 p. : ill. ; 11 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 2013 251: The first of six titles bound together. Original wrappers. From the collection of Lisa and Leonard Baskin.
Notes
An adaptation and translation from one of the tales in Arnaud Berquin's L'ami des enfants. Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books.
Possibly adapted and translated by Richard Johnson. See M.J.P. Weedon, "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery" The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 55.
Caption title: Louisa's tenderness to the little birds in winter.
The American Tract Society was first located at 150 Nassau St., New York, in 1832. A new typeface was introduced in 1848.
In printed wrapper; wrapper printed in green ink.
Frontispiece engraved on wood by Robert Roberts after a design by David Hunter Strother. Other wood engravings by William Howland. Cf. Hamilton. Wrapper wood engraving signed by William Howland.
Publisher's advertisement, p. [4] of wrapper.
Variant and related titles
Louisa's tenderness to the little birds in winter.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 01, 2013
References
Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition), 1944
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Sunday school literature.
Juvenile literature.
Also listed under
American Tract Society.
United States New York (State) New York.
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