Our girls : stories for the young.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York ; London ; Glasgow ; Manchester : George Routledge and Sons, Limited, 9 Lafayette Place [not before 1888] (N[ew] Y[ork] : Beatty & Co., Lith., 193 & 194 West St.)
Description
[48] p. : ill. (wood engrs.) ; 24 cm.

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    Library of Congress genre(s)
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    Summary note
    A collection of stories and poems for children, extensively illustrated with wood-engravings.
    Notes
    • "Illustrated"--T.p.
    • Illustrations: Most rectos have a full-page ill., variously signed by Barnes, Lawson, Dalziel, Walker, Elwes, and Evans? (E.E), as well as by: WSS, LB, JB, IG, WR, MC, and C.O.M; with smaller wood-engraved ills. and decorated capitals throughout the text.
    • Date from copyright notice on upper cover; Routledge active as George Routledge and Sons, Ltd. from 1889 onwards (cf. Brown).
    • Cotsen copy: Some ills. hand-colored, apparently by a child reader.
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper recto: "Blanche, from Fansie."
    • Cotsen copy: Inscribed in pencil on blank p. [49] in a child's hand: "Faustina Freeman."
    Binding note
    Pub. chromolithographed paper-covered bds., upper depicting two little girls seated at a table with their cat, signed "copyright 1888 by J.L. Blamire," and lower showing a little girl lying outside while reading a book and being watched by two curious bunnies.
    Other title(s)
    Stories for the young
    OCLC
    1340469967
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