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Little ferns for Fanny's little friends / by the author of "Fern leaves" ; with original designs by Fred M. Coffin.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel Fiction 3629
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fern, Fanny, 1811-1872.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Children.
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1900--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Publishers' catalogs -- 1854.
- Juvenile literature.
- Novels.
- Penn Provenance:
- Jackson, Lucy (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Hall, J. Eugenia (inscription) (Schimmel Collection copy 1)
- Physical Description:
- 298 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby & Miller ; Buffalo [N.Y] : Derby, Orton & Mulligan ; Cincinnati : Henry W. Derby ; London : Sampson Low, Son & Co., 1854.
- Notes:
- Stereotyped by Derby and Miller.
- Illustrations engraved by N. Orr.
- Publisher's advertisements (4 p.) at end of text.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of Lucy Jackson.
- Culture Class Collection copy has portion of front free endpaper wanting.
- Schimmel Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.
- Schimmel Collection copy 1: at head of title leaf: "Eighth thousand."
- Schimmel Collection copy 1 has dated 19th-century ms. inscription ("Miss J. Eugenia Hall Prize Book from the Anderson Baptist Sunday School - July 19th 1863") in pencil on verso of front free endpaper.
- Schimmel Collection copy 1: back free endpaper wanting.
- Schimmel Collection copy 2: at head of title leaf: "Fourteenth thousand."
- Schimmel Collection copy 2 has ms. inscription ("Pleas Bee carfull of this Book") in pencil on verso of frontispiece; partially illegible ms. inscription ("65 1/2 Sand St. Brooklyn [...]") in pencil on verso of last blank leaf in volume.
- Schimmel Collection copy 2: front free endpaper wanting.
- OCLC:
- 123915808
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