True stories, from ancient history, chronologically arranged : from the creation of the world to the death of Charlemagne / by the author of "Always happy," &c. ; illustrated with seventy-two engravings after designs by Mr. Brooke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Budden, Maria Elizabeth, 1780?-1832, author.

Contributor:

Brooke, William Henry, 1772-1860, illustrator.

J. Harris and Son, publisher.

S. and R. Bentley, printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History, Ancient--Juvenile literature.

History, Ancient.

Middle Ages--Juvenile literature.

Middle Ages.

Genre:

Juvenile works.

Penn Provenance:

Hayhurst, Robert J., 1929-2016 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Sagar, Henrietta Maw Rusby, approximately 1814-1863 (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

2 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm

Manufacture:

London : Printed by S. & R. Bentley, Dorset-street.

Place of Publication:

London : J. Harris and Son, corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1822.

Notes:

Pagination: volume 1: viii, [1] pages, page iv, 195, [1] pages, [18] leaves of plates ; volume 2: iv, [1] pages, page iv, 192 pages, [18] leaves of plates.

Vol. I and II covers dated 1821; both say second edition.

Illustrations dated Aug. 1st, 1822.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy: volume 1 has illegible manuscript note in pencil on verso of frontispiece plate.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Type Punch Matrix.

Kislak Center copy: each volume has dated 19th-century autograph ("Henrietta Susanna Maw 1823") of Henrietta Susanna Maw (later Rusby; subsequently Sagar; approximately 1814-1863) on title leaf.

Kislak Center copy: volume 1 has illustrated bookplate of Robert J. Hayhurst on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Kislak Center copy: front free endpaper of each volume wanting.

Cited in:

Opie D 20

Moon, M. Harris (1992), 84(3)

OCLC:

53168907