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"I can't;" or, Nelly and Lucy

Title: "I can't;" or, Nelly and Lucy / by the author of "I can," "I'll try," "Nursery Bible stories, in words of one syllable," "Ernest," etc.
Author: Burnham, Catherine Lydia, 1836-
Publication: New York : Leavitt & Allen Brothers, c1870

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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 1870 Burnham 14-485	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

216 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill.; 17 cm.

Series Statement

Can and can't' series

Uniform Title

Can and can't series.

Alternative Title

I can't
Nelly and Lucy
It's no matter.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1870.

Note

"It is not the I can't of feebleness and irresolution that is represented in this story, but the I can't of defiance and rebellion, which refuses to acquiesce in God's appointments, and sets itself up against His will."--Preface, p. [5].
By Catherine Lydia Burnham.
Edward O. Jenkins was located at 20 N. William St., New York, between 1861 and at least 1878. Leavitt & Allen Brothers was located at 8 Howard St., New York, between 1870 and 1875. Cf. AAS Nineteenth-Century American Childrens Book Trade Directory.
"Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870."
Series t.p., second plate, printed in red and black ink.
Wood-engraved plates variously signed by W.A., F. Border, John Felter, and Elias J. Whitney.
"New books for children."--publisher's advertisement, [1] p. at front.
"It's no matter."--p. 127-216.
Publisher's advertisements follow text.

Provenance (note)

Book plate on upper paste down: "The Gordon Lester Ford Collection. Presented by his sons Worthington Chauncer Ford and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library."

Binding (note)

Bound in publisher's gilt and black stamped red cloth boards, with gilt and black stamped spine.

Call Number

*KH 1870 Burnham 14-485

OCLC

31441528

Author

Burnham, Catherine Lydia, 1836-

Title

"I can't;" or, Nelly and Lucy / by the author of "I can," "I'll try," "Nursery Bible stories, in words of one syllable," "Ernest," etc.

Imprint

New York : Leavitt & Allen Brothers, c1870 (N.Y. : E.O. Jenkins, stereotyper and printer)

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Can and can't' series

Can and can't series.

Provenance

Book plate on upper paste down: "The Gordon Lester Ford Collection. Presented by his sons Worthington Chauncer Ford and Paul Leicester Ford to the New York Public Library." NN

Binding

Bound in publisher's gilt and black stamped red cloth boards, with gilt and black stamped spine. NN

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Added Author

Jenkins, Edward O., printer.

Whitney, Elias James, 1827- ill.

Borders, Fred, engraver.

Felter, John D., engraver.

Leavitt & Allen Brothers, publisher.

Children's Room Collection.

Added Title

It's no matter.

Research Call Number

*KH 1870 Burnham 14-485

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