The Lighthouse-keeper's daughter : a true story.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

American Tract Society (Boston, Mass.), publisher.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories--19th century.

Children's stories.

Devotional literature--Juvenile literature.

Devotional literature.

Miniature books--Specimens.

Miniature books.

Genre:

Juvenile works

Specimens

Publishers' cloth bindings.

Embossed cloth bindings.

Miniature books.

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

64 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 53 mm

Other Title:

Daughter

Place of Publication:

Boston : Published by the Am. Tract Society, 28 Cornhill, [between 1842 and 1862]

Contents:

The lighthouse keeper's daughter

The same God

A word to the little ones at home

"Did He die for me?'

The light of the world.

Notes:

Cover title: The daughter.

Date of publication from publisher's address. Bradbury gives: "ca. 1841-1868."

Also issued as part of the set 'My little library.'

Binding: publisher's embossed red cloth; title ("THE DAUGHTER") within a wreath stamped in gold on left board; all edges gilt.

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy imperfect(?): without plates.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2019 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy: binding faded.

Cited in:

Bradbury, R.C. Antique U.S. miniature books, p. 95, no. 22

Welsh, D.V. Miniature books, no. 4401

OCLC:

47458852