Stories of the Spanish Conquests in America. Designed for the Use of Children. By the Author of 'The Beatitudes,' and 'Lessons Without Books." Vol. I.

ID 16240
Title Stories of the Spanish Conquests in America. Designed for the Use of Children. By the Author of 'The Beatitudes,' and 'Lessons Without Books." Vol. I.
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Signed Author By the Author of 'The Beatitudes,' and 'Lessons Without Books."
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Volumes 3
Pagination 237
Date of Publication 1830
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Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1830
Imprint Leonard C. Bowles.
Colophon Waitt & Dow's Print, 122 Washington Street.
Copyright Statement District of Massacausetts, to wit: District Clerk's Office. Be It Remembered, that on the 10th day of August, A. D. 1830, in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Leonard C. Bowles, of the said district, have deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors, in the words following, to wit: Stories of the Spanish Conquests in America. Designed for the use of children. By the author of the Beautitudes, and Lessons Without Books. In conformity to the act of Congress of the United States, entitled 'An act for the encouragement of Learning, by securing the copies of maps, charys, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned; and also to an act, entitled 'An act supplementary to an act, entitled, "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned;" and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints.' JNO. W. Davis, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
Location of Printing Boston GB
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 16
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Notes Volume I
Sedgwick signs as "A Mother" at the end of the dedication.
AAS Notes:
"The following stories, claiming to be little else than an abridgement of Robertson, are the first of a series designed to embrace the most important events in the history of America, from its first discovery to the close of the Revolution. It is the object of the writer ... to render history attractive by divesting it of all formality, and thus entice the youthful mind from the regions of fiction and romance, into a wide field of knowledge, from which it has hitherto been too willingly excluded.--Preface, p. [5]. Possibly refers to William Robertson.
Has been attributed to Mrs. Charles Sedgwick in the Checklist of American Imprints, and to Catharine Maria Sedgwick in the Baldwin Library catalogue.
Spine title and running title: Spanish conquests.
Copyright 10 August 1830, "in the fifty-fourth year of the Independence," by Leonard C. Bowles.
"Boston: Waitt & Dow's print, 122 Washington Street."--verso of title page.
Pagination: Vol. 1: 237, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates. Last page blank.
In printed boards with cloth spine.
Frontispiece plate signed: "H." [i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?]
"L.C. Bowles, no. 124 Washington Street, corner of Water Street"--catalogue, lower cover.
Errata slip inserted at end.
Checklist of American imprints,
American Antiquarian Society has vol. 1 only. Edges stippled.
American Antiquarian Society CL-Backlog 1387 copy is only vol. 3.
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Sedgwick, Elizabeth Buckminster [Mrs. Charles Sedgwick]. Stories of the Spanish Conquests in America. Designed for the Use of Children. By the Author of 'The Beatitudes,' and 'Lessons Without Books." Vol. I.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16240, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16240. Accessed 2024-04-20. 

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