The Youth's friend 1830. / Revised by the Committee of Publication.

Format:

Journal/Periodical

Contributor:

American Sunday-School Union

Series:

Select library ; 103.

Select library ; 103

Standardized Title:

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

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunday school literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Frequency unknown

Place of Publication:

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

System Details:

text file

Notes:

Miscellaneous prose and poetry.

First issued in monthly numbers.

In marbled boards with leather spine. Numbered on spine: 103.

A reissue of annual compilations of the monthly periodical first published in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New York and Boston. Issued in 1838 as v. 103 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.

Also published in New Haven, 1823-1824 as: Teacher's offering, or the Sabbath scholar's magazine; and in 1825 as: Teacher's offering, or Sunday scholar's magazine.

Also reissued in Philadelphia as part of the A.S.S.U. cheap library and S.S.L.; reissued also in Rochester, N.Y.

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:

78972544

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