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The story of a short life

Title: The story of a short life / by Juliana Horatia Ewing ; illustrated by Gordon Browne.
Author: Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841-1885.
Publication: London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. & J.B. Young & Co., [1885?]

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1885 Ewing 15-635	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1885 Ewing 15-610	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1885 Ewing 14-626	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

82 p. : ill.; 22 cm

Subject

Children > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – England – London – 1885.

Note

Imprint also notes publisher's location in Brighton.
Half-title.
Wood engravings: frontispiece, title vignette, historiated initials; frontispiece included in pagination.
Publisher's advertisement follows text on back cover.

Provenance (note)

Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-635: bookseller's ticket on upper free end leaf, "W.B. Clarke & Carruth, Booksellers & Stationers. Boston" ; bookplate, tipped into front, "The Mary Gould Davis Collection."
Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-1248 is inscribed: "A.T.E. June 1887" in ink on upper free end leaf.
Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-1249 is inscribed "Eaton" in pencil on upper free end leaf.

Binding (note)

Bound in publisher's pictorial grey paper boards.

Call Number

*KH 1885 Ewing 14-626

OCLC

13316831

Author

Ewing, Juliana Horatia, 1841-1885.

Title

The story of a short life / by Juliana Horatia Ewing ; illustrated by Gordon Browne.

Imprint

London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge ; New York : E. & J.B. Young & Co., [1885?] (London : engraved and printed by Edmund Evans)

Provenance

Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-635: bookseller's ticket on upper free end leaf, "W.B. Clarke & Carruth, Booksellers & Stationers. Boston" ; bookplate, tipped into front, "The Mary Gould Davis Collection." NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's pictorial grey paper boards. NN

Provenance

Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-1248 is inscribed: "A.T.E. June 1887" in ink on upper free end leaf.

Copy in *KH 1885 Ewing 15-1249 is inscribed "Eaton" in pencil on upper free end leaf. NN

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Added Author

Browne, Gordon, 1858-1932, ill.

Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, printer.

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain), publisher.

E. & J.B. Young & Co., publisher.

Children's Room Collection.

Other Form:

Online version: Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty, 1841-1885. Story of a short life. London : Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, [1885] (OCoLC)566110685

Research Call Number

*KH 1885 Ewing 14-626

*KH 1885 Ewing 15-610

*KH 1885 Ewing 15-635

*KH 1885 Ewing 15-1248

*KH 1885 Ewing 15-1249

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