The Indian chief and the little white boy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Series:

Lovechild, Lucy. Lovechild's juvenile library ; no. 2.

Lovechild's Juvenile library ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Children.

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life.

Children's stories.

Animals--Juvenile fiction.

Animals.

Indians of North America--Juvenile fiction.

Indians of North America.

Children--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Meredith, Mary Jane (autograph) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

96 pages : illustrations ; 12 cm.

Other Title:

Indian chief

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Theodore Bliss & Co., [between 1863 and 1877], c1855.

Contents:

The Indian chief and the little white boy

The little flower girl

The drowned boy

Story of the petrel

A fox and her young ones.

Notes:

Bound as issued in illustrated paper wrappers with advertisement for "Lovechild's Juvenile Library, in twelve volumes. With beautiful illustrations, by Lucy Lovechild" on back wrapper. Imprint on wrappers: Philadelphia: H.C. Peck & Theo. Bliss.

The firm of H.C. Peck and Theodore Bliss conducted business from 1850-1862, after which Theodore Bliss founded his own firm. Cf. Dictionary of literary biography 49 (1986), p. 356. "Theodore Bliss and Company" is listed in Philadelphia city directories from 1863-1877.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has partially illegible autograph ("Mary Jane Meredith Spring Vale [...]") in pencil on first blank leaf in volume.

Schimmel Collection copy: spine damaged with some loss of spine title.