Food for the young : adapted to the mental capacities of children of tender years / by a mother.

The third edition of this collection of educational tales of voyages and natural history for children.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Mother
Darton, William, 1781-1854 (Bookseller)
Smallfield, George (Printer)
Language:English
Published: London : William Darton, 58, Holborn-Hill, 1823.
Subjects:
Children > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction.
Siblings > Juvenile fiction.
Parent and child > Juvenile fiction.
Nature stories.
Voyages and travels > Juvenile fiction.
Manners and customs > Juvenile fiction.
Children > Conduct of life.
Conduct of life.
Manners and customs.
Parent and child.
Voyages and travels.
Family stories > 1823.
Publishers' advertisements > England > London > 1823.
Publishers' advertisements.
Presentation inscriptions > United States > New York > 19th century.
Presentation inscriptions.
Bookplates > United States.
Bookplates
Genre:
Juvenile fiction.
Family stories
Publishers' advertisements
Publishers' advertisements.
Presentation inscriptions
Presentation inscriptions.
Bookplates
Ownership and Custodial History:
Engraved presentation leaf tipped-in between front free end-paper and frontispiece, partially filled out in an early hand: "Presented to John Lewis Provoost, by his friend Miss L Lock, New York"; pencil inscription in an early hand on recto of front free end-paper: "Charlotte E. Marshall"; early pencilled profile doodle on front paste-down; another, non-figurative doodle on verso of rear free end-paper; small bookplate on rear paste-down: "AHA" (this is Albert A. Howard (died 2017), the cataloger and children's book collector); several booksellers' markings in pencil on recto of front free end-paper; bookseller's description, by Philadelphia Rare Books & Manuscripts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, available in MSS 466, Box 5, Folder 68.
Local Note:
MSU: Purchased with funds provided by the Patricia A. Anderson Library Endowment for Children's Books.
Binding Information:
In contemporary marbled paper over boards; roan shelfback; spine tooled and lettered in gilt ("Food for the Young, s 2"); edges speckled in red.
Physical Description:4 unnumbered pages, 176 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (copper engravings) ; 14 cm
Variant Title:
Food for the young, &c. [Caption title]
Food for the young, s 2 [Spine title]
Format: Book

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