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A History of the Development of the American Story-Book

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Forgotten Books of the American Nursery, by Rosalie V. Halsey

Title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery

A History of the Development of the American Story-Book

Author: Rosalie V. Halsey

Release Date: February 25, 2006 [eBook #17857]

Language: English

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Transcriber’s Note

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Forgotten Books of the American Nursery

The Devil and the Disobedient Child The Devil and the Disobedient Child

FORGOTTEN BOOKS

OF

THE AMERICAN NURSERY

A History of the Development of
the American Story-Book

BY

ROSALIE V. HALSEY

Publisher’s image

BOSTON

Charles E. Goodspeed & Co.

1911


Copyright, 1911, by C. E. Goodspeed & Co.

Three dots

Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911, by D. B. Updike, at The Merrymount Press, Boston


TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Introductory 3
II. The Play-Book in England 33
III. Newbery’s Books in America 59
IV. Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery 89
V. The Child and his Book at the End of the Eighteenth Century 121
VI. Toy-Books in the early Nineteenth Century 147
VII. American Writers and English Critics 191
Index 233

 
 


ILLUSTRATIONS

The Devil and the Disobedient Child Frontispiece
From “The Prodigal Daughter.” Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5, Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?]
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Page
The Devil appears as a French Gentleman 26
From “The Prodigal Daughter.” Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5, Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J.

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