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Hymns in prose for children
Title
Hymns in prose for children. / By Mrs. Barbauld. Author of "Lessons for children." ; Illustrated.
Published
New York: : Hurd & Houghton, 401, Broadway. ; London: : John Murray., 1866.
Physical Description
xii, [1], 2-100 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN 1998 1005: From the library of Millicent Todd Bingham. In green cloth with gilt title and vignette of Christ and a child on upper cover.
Notes
Without music. "The peculiar design of this publication is to impress devotional feelings as early as possible on the infant mind ... to impress them, by connecting religion with a variety of sensible objects"--Preface, signed, "A.L.B.," p. vi. "The blending of the illustrations with the type will be found no unimportant feature; a unity being thereby obtained, which is alike pleasing and less fatiguing both to the mind and eye"--Preface to the present edition, dated at London, November, 1863, p. viii.
Spine title: Barbauld's hymns in prose for children.
"List of illustrations. Engraved by James D. Cooper."--p. [ix]-xii. Illustrations variously attributed to R. Barnes, T. Kennedy, E.M. Wimperis, and W.S. Coleman.
Variant and related titles
Barbauld's hymns in prose for children.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Hymns.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) - United States - 1866.
Relief prints.
Also listed under
Hurd & Houghton, publisher.
John Murray (Firm), publisher.
England London.
United States New York (State) New York.
England London.
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