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From AAS:
Metal-engraved title page.
Cover title and imprint vary: Hayes's Stories for children. Part I[-II]. Philadelphia: Published at the Juvenile Bookstore of Johnson & Warner. Price 19 cents.
Caption title: Stories, &c.
Metal-engraved illustrations appear on the same pages as printed text.
Ascribed by Nipps to the press of Lydia R. Bailey.
"At Johnson & Warner's may be had ..."--advertisement, back cover, pt. 1.
"At Johnson & Warner's bookstore is for sale the best assortment of handsome little books for children that has ever been published in the United States. ..."--advertisement, back cover, pt. 2.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
The irresolute boy -- The industrious boy -- The orchard -- The compassionate boy -- The mischievous boy -- The starved goldfinch -- The undutiful child -- Lydia Lovetruth -- The horse -- The butterfly -- Ploughing -- A walk to the dairy -- The rainy morning -- "Where brothers dwell and sisters meet, quarrels should never come" -- The ghost.
Catalogued
American Antiquarian Society copy metal engravings in part 2 hand-colored, probably under the direction of the publisher. Inscribed: Sally W. Blackington, West Cambridge Mass. 1846; Geo. B. Nightingale's. |
Suggestions and Comments for Tales for little children. By S. Hays.