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The house that Jack built : for the home and kindergarten schools : adapted to the wants of the youngest children
Author
Title
The house that Jack built : for the home and kindergarten schools : adapted to the wants of the youngest children / by Mrs. Charles J. Bowen.
Published
Boston : Published by Adams & Co., 25 Bromfield St., [c1872]
Physical Description
1 game (12 cards, 12 stands) ; in box 12 x 9 x 3 cm. + 1 instruction booklet (4 p. ; 12 cm.)
Local Notes
BEIN Shirley 5563: In box as issued.
Notes
Title from printed label on top of box.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by Adams & Co., in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington."
Caption title of instruction booklet: The house that Jack built. Newly illustrated. For the home and the kindergarten schools.
"Preface" to instruction booklet signed: Annie M. Bowen, Cambridge, Mass., October, 1872.
"As the story is read, the little child is to find the corresponding pictures and place them in order, making up, as it were, his own story"--"Preface" to instruction booklet.
"The house that Jack built": p. 2-4 of instruction booklet.
Cards are 7 x 8 cm. each, made of cardboard, engraved and hand colored; versos are blank. Stands are 8 x 2 x 1 cm. each and made of wood.
Label on bottom of box is advertisement for other games by Adams & Co.
Variant and related titles
House that Jack built.
Format
Other
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 28, 2007
Subjects
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Games - Massachusetts - Boston - 1872.
Publishers' advertisements.
Hand-colored illustrations.
Also listed under
Adams & Co. (Boston, Mass.), publisher.
United States Massachusetts Boston.
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