Details

Subject(s)

• Little pig monthly [Browse]
• Publishers and publishing—Massachusetts—Boston [Browse]
• Publishers and publishing—New York (State)—New York [Browse]
• Periodicals—Publishing—Massachusetts—Boston [Browse]
• Periodicals—Publishing—New York (State)—New York [Browse]
• Children's periodicals—Massachusetts—Boston [Browse]
• Children's periodicals—New York (State)—New York [Browse]
• Music [Browse]
• Songs (Medium voice) [Browse]

Related name

• Lake, J. W. [Browse]
• Dinsmore & Co. [Browse]

Engraver

Damoreau, Charles F. [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Prospectuses [Browse]
• Songs [Browse]

Series

American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 10511. [More in this series]

Contains

Cherry, J. W. (John William), 1824-1889. Shells of ocean. [Browse]

Notes

• Prospectus for the Little pig monthly, first published in June 1859 by Shepard, Clark & Co., Boston, and Dinsmore & Co., New York. The June issue was published at New York and the July issue at Boston.
• Includes "From the Little-pig monthly for July. A cracked commandment. A very little girl was taken by her mother into a shop ..."
• "Published by permission of the proprietors of Wellington's illustrated song book. ... 1. Shells of ocean. Written by Lake. Music by J.W. Cherry. One summer eve, with pensive thought, I wander'd on the sea beat shore."--p. [2]. The song, illustrated with a wood-engraving by Damoreau, was published in the July 1859 issue of the Little pig monthly.
• Printed in blue.

Reproduction note

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2005. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (American broadsides and ephemera. First series ; no. 10511).

Place name(s)

• United States Massachusetts Boston.
• United States New York New York.

Other title(s)

• Little pig monthly.
• Cracked commandment.
• Fifty pages illustrations to fifty-eight pages letter-press.
• Published by permission of the proprietors of Wellington's illustrated song book.

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