The children's year. / By Mary Howitt. ; With four plates from original designs, by Anna Mary Howitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888 1907

Contributor:

Howitt, Anna Mary, 1824-1884, ill.

Lea & Blanchard, publisher.

T.K. & P.G. Collins (Firm), printer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howitt, Margaret, 1839-1930--25437.

Howitt, Margaret.

Howitt, Herbert.

Children--Biography--69500.

Children.

Women illustrators.

Women writers.

Local Subjects:

Women illustrators.

Women writers.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1848.

Publishers' catalogues -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 1848.

Physical Description:

viii, [1], 10-179, [5] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Lea and Blanchard., 1848.

Notes:

"I resolved, therefore, to try the experiment of keeping for one whole year an exact chronicle, as it were, of the voluntary occupations and pleasures, and of the sentiments and feelings, as far as I would gain accurate knowledge of them, of my two youngest children. This little book is the result; everything which it contains is strictly true."--Preface, p. [v-vi], dated at The Elms, Clapton, Oct. 1847.

"Philadelphia: T.K. and P.G. Collins, printers."--verso of title page.

"Miscellaneous books, in various departments of literature, published by Lea and Blanchard."--catalogue, [5] p. at end.

Signatures: n[superscript 4]1-12[superscript 8].

Local Notes:

Last 5 p. adv. 4 pl. incl. frontis.; half title.

Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.

HSP in LCP.