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The young traveller's delight : containing the lives of several noted characters likely to amuse all good children.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PZ6 .Y797 1815
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, English.
- Genre:
- borders (ornament areas)
- Illustrated wrappers (book covers)
- Prices.
- Woodcut frontispieces (illustrations)
- woodcuts (prints)
- wove paper.
- chapbooks.
- children's books.
- Moral tales.
- Physical Description:
- 23 pages : illustrations ; 13 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chelmsford : Printed and sold by I. Marsden, [approximately 1815]
- Contents:
- Little Tom the Traveller and the lion
- Nancy Tender
- Sammy and Jemmy
- George and the dragon
- The fortunate suicide, or, The prodigal reclaimed.
- Notes:
- Approximate date of publication from Osborne; British Book Trade Index suggests Marsden operating in Chelmsford from 1815 to 1826.
- "Marsden, Printer, Chelmsford"--Page 23.
- "Price two-pence."--Title leaf.
- In original publisher's printed wrappers; woodcut illustration on back wrapper. First and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
- Local Notes:
- Singer-Mendenhall PZ6 .Y797 1815 purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Jarndyce.
- Cited in:
- Osborne Collection of early children's books, 1566-1910, page 959
- OCLC:
- 10894237
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