The Boy Smuggler : Chapbook; Pamphlet. 1876.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020.

24 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm

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"Geo. Harrison, printer, LaFayette Ind."--verso of title page. Text printed in blue ink. "Gay sent me the mss. for a book, entitled 'The boy smuggler,' which I was to print for him. Upon the receipt of fifty pounds of new brevier type, ... I printed and bound 300 copies for him, using blue ink."--Thos. G. Harrison, The career and reminiscences of an amateur journalist (1883), p. 122. Amateur publishing related advertisements, p. 23, for Will R. Perrin (Indianapolis), M.A. Cook (Otterville, Iowa), and John W. Cook (Otterville, Iowa). Also has an ad for the monthly Boy's gazette (Farmer City, Ill.). An ad from Ed. C. Gay advertises for sale "a good new octavo novelty press," a Boston press, and printing equipment. "Daring Dick; or The boy scout of the prairie. By Edgar P. Slade. Will soon be issued by the undersigned. ... J.A. Cook & Bro., Otterville, Buchanan Co. Iowa."--advertisement, p. 24. "Amateur papers & books printed in the highest style of art, at Geo. Harrison's printing establishment, 69 South Fourth St., LaFayette, Ind. ..."--advertisement, back cover."

Children's literature and culture. Adam Matthew.

English

January 13, 2023

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