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The young travellers, or, A visit to the grandmother : containing, with a variety of incidental topics, a sketch of the elements of zoology, botany, mineralogy, and other branches of natural history / By Mrs. Jamieson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jamieson, Mrs. (Frances Thurtle), author.
- Series:
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.
- Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Grandmothers--Juvenile literature.
- Grandmothers.
- Art--Private collections--Juvenile literature.
- Art.
- Natural history.
- Museums--Juvenile literature.
- Museums.
- Families--Juvenile literature.
- Families.
- England--Juvenile literature.
- England.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Fifth edition, With a fine frontispiece.
- Other Title:
- Young travellers, or, A visit to the grandmother
- Place of Publication:
- Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy
- Notes:
- Includes riddles, p. 212-217.
- "London: printed by B. M'Millan, Bow Street, Covent Garden."--colophon, p. 252.
- In plain boards with leather spine.
- Metal-engraved frontispiece is the only illustration. Frontispiece depicts young women and men examining a cabinet of natural history. Frontispiece plate signed "H. Corbould. Del. S. Springsguth Sculp. ... Published by M.I. [i.e., M.J.] Godwin & Co. 41 Skinner St. Snowhill." M.J. Godwin & Co. was comprised of Mary Jane Godwin and William Godwin.
- "4s. half-bound."--at foot of title page.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 1162183825
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