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Jack and Florie, or, The pigeons' wedding / by Harriet B. McKeever ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PS2359.M47 J33 1870
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McKeever, Harriet B., 1807-1886.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Picture books for children.
- Children's stories.
- Children's poetry.
- Birds--Juvenile literature.
- Birds.
- Weddings--Juvenile fiction.
- Weddings.
- Courtship--Juvenile fiction.
- Courtship.
- Animal welfare--Juvenile fiction.
- Animal welfare.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Burr, Charles W. (Charles Walts), 1861- (donor) (RBC copy)
- Dixon, Charles A. (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Hartley, Thomas W. (inscription) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 35 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- Pigeons' wedding
- Jack and Florie
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1870.
- Notes:
- Pagination includes eight leaves of hand-colored lithographed plates.
- Prose and verse.
- Title page vignette; head- and tailpieces.
- Copyright 1869, by Thos. W. Hartley.--title page verso.
- Variant bindings: one state is bound in purple cloth, cover bears a reproduction of Harriet B. McKeever's signature, cover title varies, "The pigeons' wedding", presence of advertisements varies; another state is bound in printed stiff-paper cover, cover title and imprint statement vary, "Jack and Florie, or, The pigeon's wedding / by Miss H.B. McKeever ; with nine illustrations. Philadelphia: Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 819 & 821 Market St."
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy bound in purple cloth, with cover title "The pigeons' wedding" and reproduction of author's signature within ornamental double ruled border, all gilt; without advertisements.
- RBC copy imperfect: illustrated leaf of plates, comprising p. [33]-[34], wanting.
- RBC copy has a ms. inscription, which reads "Chas. A. Dixon, compliments of Thomas W. Hartley, Esq.", dated November 1869, on the front free endpaper.
- OCLC:
- 10212067
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