Berquin's Child's own story book.

Format:

Microformat

Author/Creator:

Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791.

Contributor:

Buss, Robert William, 1804-1875, illustrator.

Ellis, George B., engraver.

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25163.

Standardized Title:

Ami des enfants. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Children's stories, French.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1840.

Plays -- 1840.

Physical Description:

274 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 6-340 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm

4x6 in.

monochrome

service copy

negative

Other Title:

Child's own story book.

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Published by Johnson & Co., [between 1840 and 1849?]

Notes:

Reissue, under cancel title page, of: The children's friend. Translated from the French of M. Berquin. Vol. III. Newburyport: John Mycall for William P. Blake, [1793?] (Evans 25163; Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 71.3); Vol. IV. Boston: Thomas Hall for William P. Blake, 1795 (not in Evans; Welch 71.7).

Date of reissue suggested by typography of title page and style of binding. The printer of the intaglio frontispiece plate was active in Philadelphia from 1833 to 1844.

Errors in paging: p. 233, first count, misnumbered 235; p. 97, 205, 305, 2nd count, misnumbered 95, 105, 285.

In purple cloth: covers ornamented in blind; title stamped in gilt on spine.

Frontispiece plate signed: Canvassing. Painted by R.W. Buss. Engraved by Geo. B. Ellis. Printed by D. Stevens.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 25163).

Cited in:

Evans 25163

OCLC:

99019088