Colonial days : being stories and ballads for young patriots, as recounted by five boys and five girls in "Around the yule log", "Aboard the Mavis", "On the edge of winter" / by Richard Markham ; illustrated.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markham, Richard, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's literature, American.

United States--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Juvenile fiction.

United States.

United States--History--Revolution, 1775-1783--Juvenile fiction.

Genre:

Children's literature, American.

Cloth case bindings.

novels.

Fiction.

History.

Juvenile works.

Novels.

Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States.

Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 1880-1890.

Physical Description:

698 pages: illustrations, 1 map ; 23 cm

Other Title:

Around the yule log.

Aboard the Mavis.

On the edge of winter.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, Publishers, [1881]

Contents:

Around the yule log

Aboard the Mavis

On the edge of winter.

Notes:

On cover and spine: Colonial days.

Three parts, paged continuously.

Map: page 389.

Local Notes:

Publisher's pictorial grey-blue cloth stamped in darker blue, black and brown on cover with image of a frontiersman in fringed buckskin standing outside a log cabin pointing a smoking rifle at an Indian who is falling backwards, gold title with black outline; scene wraps to spine with gold title, shield, plants; printed endpapers. Penn State copy inscribed with date 1892. Another copy in yellow buckram with same design stamped in black, with silver titles and plain endpapers, issued with the three parts variously paginated.

Also issued in diagonally ribbed red cloth stamped in black and pale grey with variant image of a man with rifle, a dead Indian lying in front of him, a boy turned away behind him, hiding his face in his mother's dress, clutching her; in the distance, a cabin, likely theirs, is in flames; this panel scene surrounded with pleasant floral border in black; similar border on spine, title in drop-out with black border in a gold panel.

Also issued in pictorial dark turquoise-blue cloth stamped in gold, silver, orange and black on cover with images of a three-masted ship against large silver moon, a soldier with rifle and bayonet stepping over a cannon barrel, profile of an Indian in a gold circle, Indians rowing a canoe, and at the top, a running border repeating a shield over a lance, a tomahawk, a bow and quiver of arrows; title in silver with gold initials on cover and spine; top border continues to the spine; silver figure of a soldier with shouldered rifle, and crossed swords at the bottom with a tri-cornered hat. Penn State has another copy in variant olive green cloth with same design; additionally with horizontal rules and a central decorative design stamped in blind on the back cover; printed endpapers with a repeat pattern of birds and branches; this copy likely a first printing, with inscription dated "Christmas 1882."

Cited in:

Minsky, R. American trade bindings with Native American themes 1875-1933, page 55

Other Format:

Online version: Markham, Richard. Colonial days.

OCLC:

4896605