The Bodleys telling stories, c.1877 / Horace Elisha Scudder ; illustrators, James Carter Beard [and others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scudder, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902, author.

Contributor:

Beard, James Carter, 1837-1913, illustrator.

Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.

Series:

Children's literature and culture

Language:

English

Genre:

Children's stories.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (viii, 236 pages)) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

c.1877 /

New York : Hurd and Houghton, 1878.

Notes:

AMDigital Reference: CL S436 B6681t 1877.

"Record ID: 220953"--Home page.

"Sub Collection: Important Authors/Titles/Illustrators"--Home page.

"Additional Notes: By The Author Of "Doings Of The Bodley Family In Town And Country," "Stories From My Attic," "Dream Children," And "Seven Little People And Their Friends" ; With Illustrations. "Doings of the Bodley family in town and country / by the author of "Stories from my attic; " "Dream children; " and "Seven little people and their friends." ; With seventy-seven illustrations."--Home page.

"Catalog Notes: New York : Published by Hurd and Houghton ; Boston: H.O. Houghton and Company ; Cambridge [Mass.]: The Riverside Press, 1878 [i.e., 1877?] viii, [1], 10-236, [2] p. : ill., ports., music ; 22 cm. By Horace E. Scudder. "The author has made acknowledgment in several places in this volume of the favor shown him by friends who have told his stories in advance. He would here say that the music, not otherwise credited, is by the late Charles Moulton, of Paris, and that the Western and Indian stories were first told by Miss M.M. Thomas, of Cincinnati."--p. viii. Includes poetry. "M.M. Thomas," identified as Martha M. Thomas in the Riverside magazine, is almost certainly Martha McCannon Thomas. Copyright 1877 by Hurd and Houghton. Copy in hand bears an inscription dated Christmas 1877. "Riverside, Cambridge: electrotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company."--verso of title page. In chromolithographed boards with chromolithographed endpapers. Most if not all the illustrations previously appeared in the Riverside magazine, including illustrations there attributed to Winslow Homer, John La Farge, Sidney L. Smith, James Carter Beard, and H.L. Stephens. "The illustrations to The little bachelor, in chapter VI., drawn by Mrs. Lucy Gibbons Morse, suggested the tableaux described."--p. viii. Other illustrations variously engraved by James W. Louderbach, John Andrew, Harley, Nathaniel Rudd, James L. Langridge, Augustus Fay and Thomas Cox, Nathan Brown, William J. Pierce, "Ansseau sc.," J. Augustus Bogert, W.H. Morse, and "[--] Koch sc.", after illustrations by E.B. Bensell, Courtland Hoppin, John N. Hyde, A.P. Close, M.F.H. De Haas, Gaston Fay, Henry Walker Herrick, Asa Coolidge Warren, William de la Montagne Cary, Annette Bishop, M.L. Stone, Granville Perkins, Daniel Fisher, E. Rosch, and John Augustus Hows. Also includes a poem written and illustrated by Annette Bishop, p. 136. "The Bodley books First series. ... Each volume, $1.50. The set, 5 vols., $7.50."--numbered series list, publisher's advertisement in The Bodleys afoot (ca. 1880). Includes publisher's advertisements, [2] p. at end"--Home page.

"Catalog Record Note: Catalog Records (c) 2020, by the American Antiquarian Society. All rights reserved"--Home page.

Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2020. Digitized from a copy held by the American Antiquarian Society and made available by Adam Matthew Digital.

Description based on online resource; title from scanned document's title page (viewed on February 17, 2021).

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