The girl's own book.

Author/creator Child, Lydia Maria author.
Format Electronic
Publication[Boston] : [Carter and Hendee], [1832?]
Description1 online resource (viii, 263 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations.
Supplemental ContentGale, Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Subjects

Other author/creatorWells, Anna Maria, 1795?-1868, author.
Other author/creatorJohnston, David Claypoole, 1799-1865, illustrator.
Other author/creatorGraeter, Francis, illustrator.
Other author/creatorHall, John H., -approximately 1849, illustrator.
Uniform titleLittle girl's own book
SeriesWomen's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision
Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision. UNAUTHORIZED
General noteTitle transcribed from running title.
General note"Published by Carter & Hendee, Boston."--frontispiece plate. Carter and Hendee published in Boston between 1829 and 1830. In 1831, the firm name changed to Carter, Hendee & Babcock. The firm name reverted to Carter and Hendee in 1832, until it changed to Carter, Hendee & Company in 1833. According to BAL (3108), the first edition of The little girl's own book was published by Carter, Hendee & Babcock in 1831. The collation of the first edition matches that of the issue in hand.
General noteFrontispiece plate engraved on metal.
General noteLast page blank.
General noteIn boards with leather spine and corners.
General noteIllustrations attributed by Lydia Maria Child to "Mr. Johnston" (i.e., David Claypoole Johnston?), and Francis Graeter. Textual wood engravings signed by John H. Hall.
General noteIndex, p. v-viii.
General note"Lines to a fate lady. By Mrs. Ann Maria Wells."--p. 66-68. "Farewell to my doll. By Mrs. Ann Maria Wells."--in verse, p. 179-180.
General noteAttributed to Lydia Maria Child, and Anna Maria Wells.
General noteIncludes index.
General noteReproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

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