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The temperance tales / Lucius M. Sargent.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC8 Sa733 848t v.1-2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sargent, Lucius M. (Lucius Manlius), 1786-1867.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Temperance--Fiction.
- Temperance.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Short stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Tillotson, O. H. (bookplate) (inscription)
- Tillotson, George W. (inscription)
- Physical Description:
- 2 volumes : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Other Title:
- My Mother's gold ring.
- Wild Dick and good little Robin.
- I am afraid there is a God!
- Sectarian thing.
- Groggy harbor.
- Right opposite.
- Fritz Hazell.
- What a curse!
- Word in season.
- Seed time and harvest.
- Irish heart.
- Well enough for the vulgar.
- Nancy Le Baron.
- Kitty Grafton.
- Too fast and too far.
- Stage-coach.
- Life-preserver.
- As a medicine.
- Prophets!
- Margaret's bridal.
- Temperance meeting in the village of Tattertown.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Published by W.J. Reynolds & Co., 1848.
- Contents:
- v. 1. My Mother's gold ring. Wild Dick and good little Robin. I am afraid there is a God! A sectarian thing. Groggy harbor. Right opposite. Fritz Hazell. What a curse! or, Johnny Hodges, the blacksmith. A word in season, or the sailor's widow. Seed time and harvest. An Irish heart. Well enough for the vulgar. Nancy Le Baron.
- v. 2. Kitty Grafton. Too fast and too far; or, the cooper and the currier. The stage-coach. The life-preserver. As a medicine. The prophets! Where are they! Margaret's bridal. The temperance meeting in the village of Tattertown.
- Notes:
- "Stereotyped by George A. Curtis; New England Type and Stereotype Foundry."--T.p. verso.
- "In presenting a comprehensive editon of the 'Temperance Tales' to the public, the publisher complies with the request of many highly respected friends of the temperance cause. These tales were prepared for the purpose of doing good ..."--Publisher's Preface.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of O.H. Tillotson.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed to George W. Tillotson by O.J.T., April 1858.
- OCLC:
- 6688488
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