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The Island, or, Learning without books.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Bross, Robert S., approximately 1831- engraver.
Bookhout, Edward, engraver.
American Tract Society, publisher.
Series:
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Glory of God--Juvenile fiction.
Glory of God.
Voyages and travels--Juvenile fiction.
Voyages and travels.
Genre:
Fiction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations.
Other Title:
Learning without books
Island
Place of Publication:
[New York] : The American Tract Society, [1859?]
System Details:
text file
Notes:
Date from inscription.
"The beauties of creation"--Page 32, in verse, signed: Heber.
Half title page, engraved and signed by R.S. Bross; some illustrations engraved and signed by R.S. Bross or E. Bookhout.
Both R.S. Bross and E. Bookhout were active in New York from 1850 to 1860. Cf. Groce, G.N.Y. Hist. dict. of artists in Amer., 1957.
Publisher's advertisement: page [4] of cover.
Title from added, engraved title page.
Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.
OCLC:
52156095
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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