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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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Special Collections - Cotsen Children's Library
153465 Eng 19
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Subject(s)
Children's stories, English
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19th century
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Children's poetry, English
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19th century
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Children
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Pictorial works
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Juvenile literature
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Illustrator
Barnes, Robert, 1840-1895
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Lawson, Lizzie
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Walker, E. J., active 1878-1886
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Elwes, Alfred Thomas
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Blamire, Joseph L.
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Engraver
Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905
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Dalziel Brothers
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Publisher
George Routledge and Sons
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Printer
Beatty & Co., Lith
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Fiction
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Printed boards
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19th century
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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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