Stranded at Plimoth Plantation, 1626 / words and woodcuts by Gary Bowen ; introduction by David Freeman Hawke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bowen, Gary, 1961-

Contributor:

Hawke, David Freeman.

Starace, Tom.

Tehon, Atha.

Atha Tehon Thiras Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony)--Juvenile literature.

Pilgrims (New Plymouth Colony).

Manners and customs.

Massachusetts--Social life and customs--To 1775--Juvenile literature.

Massachusetts.

Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691--Juvenile literature.

History.

Massachusetts--Social life and customs--To 1775.

Massachusetts--History--New Plymouth, 1620-1691.

Genre:

History.

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Tehon, Atha (former owner) (Tehon Collection copy)

Tehon, Susan (donor)

Physical Description:

v pages, 1 unnumbered page, 81 pages, 1 unnumbered page : color illustrations, color map ; 22 x 29 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[New York] : HarperCollinsPublishers, [©1994]

Summary:

The journal of Christopher Sears, a 13 year-old orphan stranded at Plimoth Plantation. Based on actual accounts of the time.

Notes:

Front endpaper has map; back endpapers have plan of plantation at New Plimoth.

"Typography by Tom Starace"--Colophon.

"First Edition."

"The woodcuts in this book were cut on cherry and pearwood, printed, and the resultant monochrome proofs hand-colored with inks. Woodcuts were the most widely used - albeit the most difficult - method of making multiple prints in the seventeenth century."

Designed by Atha Tehon.

Local Notes:

Tehon Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Susan Tehon.

Tehon Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0060225416

9780060225414

0060225424

9780060225421

OCLC:

29360326