Olive leaflets ; Leaflets of the law of kindness for children / edited by Elihu Burritt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

New York School of Design for Women, engraver.

Fuller, Sarah E., approximately 1829-1902, engraver.

Series:

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sunday school literature.

Children's stories.

Children's poetry.

Siblings--Juvenile literature.

Siblings.

Charity--Juvenile literature.

Charity.

Pacifism.

Animal welfare.

People with mental disabilities.

Sick children--Juvenile literature.

Sick children.

Theft--Juvenile literature.

Theft.

Birds--Juvenile poetry.

Birds.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Olive leaflets ;

Place of Publication:

S.S. & W. Wood ;

Notes:

A collection of fifteen numbered tracts "Published for the New-York Olive Leaf Circle, by S.S. & W. Wood, 261 Pearl Street" (colophon), followed by sixteen numbered "Leaflets of the law of kindness edited by Elihu Burritt" (caption title), all in a green publisher's cloth binding, with no collective title page. Each tract is 4 p. long, except tract no. 10, which is 8 p; the leaflets are paged sequentially. Issue in hand contains an illustration signed by the New York School of Design for Women; this school was established in 1852.

Title from upper cover.

Samuel S. and William Wood published at 261 Pearl St., New York, from 1836 to 1855. The first Olive Leaf Society was established by Elihu Burritt in 1850; cf. P. Tolis, Elihu Burritt (Hamden, Conn., 1968), p. 167.

Wood-engraved illustration, p. [1] of tract no. 10, signed "Fuller sc." (i.e., Sarah E. Fuller?) and "NY School of Design."

For the first fifteen tracts, each tract is paged 1-4.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Contains:

Burritt, Elihu, 1810-1879. Leaflets of the law of kindness for children.

OCLC:

1162342631