Binding of light brown pictorial paper covers. Cover designed by Edmund Gillon. Price £2.50 net. Publisher's advertisements on endpapers.,UkLNAL

Bookplate on upper flyleaf reads: "London Borough of Camden Public Libraries, Junior Reference Department.",UkLNAL

Erratum listed after p. 354.

Half-title.

Illustrated with 43 plates with 104 illustrations. Listed p. xvii-xxiii.

Includes indexes of authors and titles and printers and publishers. Publisher's advertisements [6] p. at end.

Library's copy A donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier.,UkLNAL

Library's copy B acquired from London Borough of Camden Library Service.,UkLNAL

Library's copy C donated by Pat Garrett.,UkLNAL

Reprint of the 1933 ed. which was originally published by the Southworth Press, Portland, Maine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-354).

Prepared with the assistance of bibliographer E. Millicent Sowerby, this book describes the collection of early American children's books assembled by A.S.W. Rosenbach. Nursery rhymes, adventure fiction, religious instructional books, educational books, primers, alphabets, moral tales, fables, enigmas and puzzles and many other categories are covered, arranged in chronological sequence from 1682 to 1836. For each of the 816 books Rosenbach and Sowerby provide a full collation and description, often with information about other editions, circumstances of publication, British parallels and prototypes, artists, and illustrators, writers and publishers. Includes sample quotations and facsimile illustrations as well as indexes of authors, titles, printers, and publishers and a list of printers, publishers, and booksellers.

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