The Youth's friend 1831. / Revised by the Committee of Publication.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

Gilbert, George, engraver.

American Sunday-School Union.

Series:

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society.

Select library (American Sunday School Union) ; 104.

American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society

Select library ; 104

Standardized Title:

Youth's friend (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1838h)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunday school literature.

Genre:

Sunday school literature.

Re-issues (Publishing)

Relief prints.

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Marbled papers (Paper)

Juvenile literature -- Periodicals.

Poems -- 1838.

Periodicals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Frequency unknown

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St., [1838]

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Miscellaneous prose and poetry.

A reissue of annual compilations of the monthly periodical first published in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New York and Boston. Issued in 1838 as v. 104 of the Select library, a set of 121 volumes in uniform binding selected as the best of the Union's publications. Accompanied by a descriptive catalogue. Cf. American Sunday-School Union. Fourteenth annual report ... May 22, 1838, p. 23, 64.

In marbled boards with leather spine. Numbered on spine: 104.

Wood-engravings signed: GG [i.e., George Gilbert?].

Local Notes:

This title was originally housed with the other volumes in the Select library (121 v.; AAS copy lacks v. 115) in a wooden cabinet measuring 29 x 18 3/4 x 5 inches. The Select library, with cabinet, was issued for sale to schools and family libraries for $33. The American Antiquarian Society purchased the Select library volumes and cabinet from Benjamin Tighe, Sept. 20, 1949. The cabinet is displayed in the office of the Curator of Children's Literature, Antiquarian Hall.

OCLC:

1041857113

Access Restriction:

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