Research Catalog

Title

Masterworks of children's literature / general editor, Jonathan Cott.

Publication

New York : Stonehill Pub. Co. in association with Chelsea House Publishers, ©1983-©1986.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Cott, Jonathan
• Butler, Francelia, 1913-1998
• Bator, Robert
• Wolff, Robert Lee
• Moynihan, William T.
• Shaner, Mary E.

Description

8 volumes in 9 : illustrations (some color); 27 cm

Subject

• Children's literature
• anthologies

Genre/Form

• Reference works.
• Ouvrages de référence.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• v. 1. The early years (1550-1739): Preface & General introduction / Jonathan Cott. Children's literature from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century / Francelia Butler. Ballads: The Norfolke gentleman, his last will and testament. A most pleasant ballad of patient Grissell. Tom Thumbe, his life and death. A pleasant new ballad to sing both even and morne, of the bloody murther of Sir John Barley-coine. The seven champions of Christendom. The mad merry prankes of Robbin Good-fellow -- Poetry: August eclogue from The shepheardes calendar / Edmund Spenser. Nymphidia, the court of fairy / Michael Drayton. The mower's song / Andrew Marvell. Nursery rhymes of the seventeenth century. Ring a ring o' roses and other game rhymes -- Fables: Aesop's Fables (selections) / Sir Roger L'Estrange -- Fiction: Maroccus extaticus: or, Bankes' bay horse in a trance. Robin Good-fellow; his mad prankes, and merry jests. The ancient true and admirable history of patient Grisel. The famous history of the seven champions of Christendom (selections) / Richard Johnson. The pleasant history of Thomas Hic-ka-thrift. The famous and remarkable history of Sir Richard Whittington, three times Lord Mayor of London / T.H. Masterworks of children's literature: The man in the moone telling strange fortunes; or the English fortune teller. The famous history of Valentine and Orson, the two sons of the Emperor of Greece. -- Religious verse: A book for boys and girls: or, country rhymes for children / John Bunyan. A hymn sung as by the shepherds from In the holy nativity of our Lord God / Richard Crashaw. The holy bible; containing, the old and new testaments, with the Apocrypha / B.H. Apples of gold in pictures of silver from The key of knowledg / Thomas Willis. Divine and moral songs / Isaac Watts -- v. 2. The early years (1550-1739): Religious prose: War with the devil: or the young man's conflict with the powers of darkness (selections) / B. Keach. Milk for babes, and meat for men / Hugh Peters. A token for children / James Janeway. A token, for the children of New-England / Cotton Mather. Actes and monuments of the church (selections) / John Foxe -- Illustrated textbook: Orbis pictus (selections) / John Amos Comenius. -- Drama: The seven champions of Christendom. St. George and the dragon. Hero and Leander from Bartholomew Fair / Ben Jonson. Comus / John Milton. -- Science: The birth of mankinde (selections) / Thomas Raynalde. The haven of health (selections) / Thomas Cogan. A book of nymphs, sylphs, pygmies and salamanders (selections) / Theophrastus von Hohenheim (Paracelsus). The herball, or generall historie of plantes (selections) / John Gerard. A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia (selections) / Thomas Hariot. A perfit description of the caelestiall orbes (selections) / Thomas Digges. The historie of foure-footed beastes (selections) / Edward Topsell -- Checklist: An annotated bibliography of works shared by children and adults from the late sixteenth century to the early eighteenth century / Charity Chang -- v. 3. Middle period, 1740-1836: Neatly bound and gilt: children's literature in England, 1740-1836 / Robert Bator -- Anonymous: The history and description of the famous cathedral of St. Paul's, London (published by Thomas Boreman) -- "Tom Telescope": The Newtonian system of philosophy (published by John Newbery) -- The history of little goody two-shoes (published by John Newbery) -- Hymns in prose / Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld -- The history of Sandford and Merton (abridged) / Thomas Day -- The adventures of a pincushion / Mary Ann Kilner -- The life and perambulation of a mouse / Dorothy Kilner -- Fabulous histories / Sarah Kirby Trimmer -- Original stories from real life / Mary Wollstonecraft -- Ellenor Fenn: The fairy spectator.
• v. 4: Middle period (1740-1836): Evenings at home (selections) / John Aikin and Anna Laetitia Aikin Barbauld -- Dramatic dialogues (volume 1) / Elizabeth Pinchard -- The parent's assistant (selections) / Maria Edgeworth -- Keeper's travels in search of his master / Edward Augustus Kendall -- Rhymes for the nursery / Ann and Jane Taylor -- The butterfly's ball / William Roscoe -- The peacock at home / Catherine Ann Dorset -- Mrs. Leicester's school / Charles and Mary Lamb -- The juvenile spectator (Volume I) / Arabella Argus -- Prince Dorus / Charles Lamb -- The history of little Henry and his bearer / Martha Butt Sherwood -- A select bibliography of secondary works -- v. 5. The Victorian age (1837-1900): Children's literature: the Victorian age / Robert Lee Wolff -- Holiday house / Catherine Sinclair -- The fairy bower / Harriet Mozley -- Tom Brown's school days / Thomas Hughes -- Eric, or, Little by little / Frederic W. Farrar -- The rival kings / Annie Keary -- Countess Kate / Charlotte M. Yonge -- Jessica's first prayer / Hesba Stretton -- Castle Blair / Flora L. Shaw -- Jackanapes / Juliana Horatia Ewing (2 v.) -- v. 6. The Victorian age (1837-1900): The king of the golden river, or, The black brothers / John Ruskin -- The enchanted doll / Mark Lemon -- Frauds on the fairies / Charles Dickens -- The rose and the ring / William Makepeace Thackeray -- Granny's wonderful chair / Frances Browne -- Fairy stories / John Ruskin -- At the back of the north wind / George MacDonald -- The boy in grey / Henry Kingsley -- The good little girl / F. Anstey -- v. 7. Victorian color picture books: Victorian color picture books : a dialogue with Maurice Sendak -- Hey diddle diddle. Baby Bunting / Randolph Caldecott -- 1, 2, buckle my shoe. Selections from Beauty and the beast. Selections from The frog prince. Selections from An alphabet of old friends. Selections from The baby's bouquet / Walter Crane -- Selections from Mother Goose / Kate Greenaway -- Selections from A new child's play. Selections from The story without an end / E.V.B. (Eleanor Vere Boyle) -- Selections from Puss-in-Boots. Selections from Jack and the bean-stalk. Selections from Tom Thumb -- The Princess Nobody. Two illustrations from In fairyland / Richard Doyle and Andrew Lang -- Geographical fun / Aleph -- The butterfly's ball / R.M. Ballantyne -- v. 8. The Twentieth Century: Introduction / William T. Moynihan -- Realism in twentieth-century children's literature / Mary E. Shaner -- New realism in children's fiction / Rosanne Donahue -- Black images in American children's literature / James A. Miller -- Twentieth-century children's fantasy / Mary E. Shaner -- Children's science fiction / Thomas J. Weber -- Small wonders : baby books and picturebooks / Ann Devereaux Jordan -- Appendix A: Contents, volumes 1-7 -- Appendix B: Children's book awards -- Notes on contributors -- General Index, volumes 1-8.

ISBN

• 0877543755
• 9780877543756
• 0877543763
• 9780877543763
• 0877543771
• 9780877543770
• 087754378X
• 9780877543787
• 0877543798
• 9780877543794
• 0877543801
• 9780877543800
• 087754381X
• 9780877543817
• 9780877544593
• 087754459X
• 0877544492
• 9780877544494
• 087754459X (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

86011727

OCLC

• ocm13582422
• 13582422
• SCSB-1178943

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library