Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy / by Peter Parley ; illustrated with engravings.

Author/creator Goodrich, Samuel G.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew-York : D. Appleton and Co., 1855, ©1854.
Description320 pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates (tinted wood-engravings) ; 18 cm
Subjects

Other author/creatorTrichon, François Auguste, 1814-1898 engraver.
Other author/creatorFoulquier, Jean Antoine Valentin, 1822-1896, engraver.
Other author/creatorMeyer, Ernest.
Other author/creatorSmith, Emma F., autographer.
Variant title Fact and fancy
Contents Introduction -- The boy captive -- The white owl -- Thomas Titmouse -- The wolf and fox -- Bob link -- Autobiography of a sparrow -- The children of the sun -- The soldier and the fiddler -- The rich man and his son -- Flint and steel -- The avalanche -- Songs of the seasons.
Local noteJoyner Rare copy includes autograph of "Emma F. Smith" of Concord, dated Dec. 25, 1859 on front flyleaf.
General noteTinted wood-engraved plates, engraved and signed by Trichon; also signed: "Typ. Ernest Meyer"; frontispiece and one other plate also signed: V. Foulquier.
General note"List of engravings": p. [5].
General notePublisher's catalog: [4] p. at end with paging 15, 16, 17, 9.
References Goodrich, S.G. Recollections of a lifetime, v. 2, p. 541.
References Hamilton. South American book illustrators (1968 ed.) 507.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare copy gift of Lawrence Houston, 8/2020
Issued in other formOnline version: Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860. Faggots for the fireside, or, Fact and fancy. New-York : D. Appleton and Co., 1855, ©1854
Genre/formJuvenile works.
LCCN 05018454

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