Four-footed Americans and their kin / by Mabel Osgood Wright ; edited by Frank M. Chapman ; illustrated by Ernest Seton Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wright, Mabel Osgood, 1859-1934.

Contributor:

Chapman, Frank M. (Frank Michler), 1864-1945, editor.

Seton, Ernest Thompson, 1860-1946, illustrator.

Macmillan Company, publisher.

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

Norwood Press, printer.

J.S. Cushing & Co., printer.

Berwick & Smith, printer.

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

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mammals--United States--Juvenile fiction.

Mammals.

Animal behavior--Juvenile fiction.

Animal behavior.

Nature stories.

Naturalists--Juvenile fiction.

Naturalists.

Fathers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.

Fathers and daughters.

Cousins--Juvenile fiction.

Cousins.

Country life--Juvenile fiction.

Country life.

African Americans--Juvenile fiction.

African Americans.

Farm life--Juvenile fiction.

Farm life.

Dogs--Juvenile fiction.

Dogs.

Genre:

Publishers' advertisements -- New York -- New York -- 19th century.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

xv, 432, [3] p., [29] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Macmillan Co. ; London : Macmillan & Co., 1898 (Norwood, Mass. : Norwood Press ; J.S. Cushing & Co. ; Berwick & Smith)

Summary:

Scientific information on four-footed animals given within a fictional narrative structure.

Notes:

"Ladder for climbing the family tree of the North American mammals": P. 415-430.

Publisher's advertisement: P. [433]-[435].

Includes index.

Local Notes:

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

Schimmel Collection copy has armorial bookplate of the Fowler family of New York on front pastedown. Cf. C.K. Bolton, Bolton's American armory (Baltimore: Clearfield, 1989), p. 62.

OCLC:

2146952