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Rainbows for children

Title: Rainbows for children / [Caroline Sturgis Tappan] ; edited by L. Maria Child.
Author: Tappan, Caroline Sturgis, 1819-1888.
Publication: New York : C.S. Francis ; Boston : J.H. Francis, 1848, c1847.

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Description

169, [8] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.

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Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – Massachusetts – Boston – 1848.

Note

Added decorative title page.
"I wish these fairy-stories were written by myself; but they are not. The author merely intended them for the private amusement of a few juvenile relatives"--Editor's Preface, p. 7. Attributed to Caroline Sturgis Tappan in the BAL.
"Twenty eight original sketches have been neatly designed by Mr. S. Wallin, of City Hall place; and Mr. B.F. Childs has proved himself on this, as on other occasions, one of our very best wood-engravers."--Preface, p. 8.
Includes publisher's advertisements, [2] p. at end.

Provenance (note)

Inscribed: in ink on upper end leaf, "Grace E. Baldwin;"in graphite on half title, "Grace E. Baldwin, Christmas. For little Grace from her dear Mama, Christmas;" and in graphite on recto of lower end leaf, "Thomas Montgomery."

Binding (note)

Bound in green cloth boards with gilt title .

Contents

Fiamma -- The crystal palace -- Violet's May-day -- Gertrude's search -- Bright sunshine -- The little voyagers -- Fanny's menagerie -- The rainbow-winged spirit -- Rose Island.

Call Number

*KH 1848 Tappan 11-319

OCLC

17828282

Author

Tappan, Caroline Sturgis, 1819-1888.

Title

Rainbows for children / [Caroline Sturgis Tappan] ; edited by L. Maria Child.

Imprint

New York : C.S. Francis ; Boston : J.H. Francis, 1848, c1847. (C.A. Alvord, printer)

Provenance

Inscribed: in ink on upper end leaf, "Grace E. Baldwin;"in graphite on half title, "Grace E. Baldwin, Christmas. For little Grace from her dear Mama, Christmas;" and in graphite on recto of lower end leaf, "Thomas Montgomery." NN

Binding

Bound in green cloth boards with gilt title . NN

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Added Author

Child, Lydia Maria, 1802-1880.

Wallin, Samuel, ill.

Alvord, C. A. Printer

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1848 Tappan 11-319

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