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The Lighthouse-keeper's daughter : a true story.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 7106
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- Format:
- Book
- 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
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