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Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy

Title
Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy / by Peter Parley ; illustrated with engravings.
Author
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860.
Publication
New-York : D. Appleton and Co., 1855, c1854.

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Additional Authors
  • Foulquier, Jean Antoine Valentin, 1822-1896.
  • D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
  • Children's Room Collection.
Description
320 p., [12] leaves of plates (tinted wood-engravings); 18 cm.
Alternative Title
Fact and fancy
Subjects
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1855.
Note
  • Tinted wood-engraved plates, engraved and signed by Trichon; also signed: "Typ. Ernest Meyer"; frontispiece and one other plate also signed: V. Foulquier.
  • "List of engravings": p. [5].
  • Publisher's catalog: [4] p. at end with paging 15, 17, 9.
  • Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 889.
  • Cf. Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, p. 541.
  • Cf. Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), 507.
Provenance (note)
  • Inscribed: in graphite, on free upper end leaf, "Henry St. John. January 1st 1855." Bookplate: Ex Libris Henrietta St. John .
Binding (note)
  • *KH 1855 Goodrich 13-336 bound in green cloth boards; gilt frame on upper cover; gilt vignette on lower cover; gilt design on spine; Upper cover and spine decorated with colored onlays.
Contents
Introduction -- The boy captive -- The white owl -- Thomas Titmouse -- The wolf and fox -- Bob link -- Autobiography of a sparrow -- The children of the sun -- The soldier and the fiddler -- The rich man and his son -- Flint and steel -- The avalanche -- Songs of the seasons.
Call Number
*KH 1855 Goodrich 13-336
LCCN
05018454
OCLC
32457034
Author
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860.
Title
Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy / by Peter Parley ; illustrated with engravings.
Imprint
New-York : D. Appleton and Co., 1855, c1854.
Provenance
Inscribed: in graphite, on free upper end leaf, "Henry St. John. January 1st 1855." Bookplate: Ex Libris Henrietta St. John . NN
Binding
*KH 1855 Goodrich 13-336 bound in green cloth boards; gilt frame on upper cover; gilt vignette on lower cover; gilt design on spine; Upper cover and spine decorated with colored onlays. NN
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Added Author
Foulquier, Jean Antoine Valentin, 1822-1896.
D. Appleton and Company, publisher.
Children's Room Collection.
Other Form:
Online version: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy. New-York : D. Appleton and Co., 1855, c1854 (OCoLC)806994276
Research Call Number
*KH 1855 Goodrich 13-336
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