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.
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| Language: | English |
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London :
William Darton, 58, Holborn-Hill,
1823.
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| 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 |