The promised visit : including an account of the various methods of manufacturing paper in different countries : to which are annexed fifty questions with a view to impress the subject in the youthful mind / by the author of "The dew-drop."

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vaux, Frances Bowyer, 1785-1854, author.

Contributor:

Harvey & Darton (London, England), Publisher.

Harvey, Darton & Co., Printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life.

Children.

Conduct of life.

Paper mills.

Siblings.

Trees.

Families.

Nature stories.

Animals.

Genre:

Family stories -- 1821.

Fiction

Fiction.

Juvenile literature.

Penn Provenance:

Singer, Jacob (donor)

Singer, Leah (donor)

Singer, Godfrey F. (honoree)

Mendenhall, John C. (donor)

Physical Description:

[2], 103 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 15 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch-Street, 1821 (London : Harvey, Darton & Co.)

Summary:

"A further account of Harriet and Edward Lenox, half-promised at the end of The dew-drop (G637). Meeting a French emigré who works at the mill, and makes ingenious bone toys in his spare time, helps to overcome Edward's prejudice against the French."--Darton.

Notes:

Author from Osborne Coll. cited below.

In this edition the name of the girl is Harriet, not Harriot, as in the 1818 edition.

Signatures: pi² B-I⁶ K⁴.

"The list of questions which Harriet and Edward answered"--Page 99 -103

Local Notes:

BJ 1631 V38 1821: Quarter binding marbled paper over boards and tanned animal skin spine. Purchased for the Penn Libraries from Stuart Bennett, 2024.

Cited in:

Baldwin Library, II, p. 350

National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, 472:599

Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, I, p. 136-137

OCLC:

14157203