Name/Title
The Parent's Assistant or Stories For Children / Maria EdgeworthEntry/Object ID
2015.7.31Description
535 pages.
Originally issued in 1796 in six volumes, two or three stories to a volume., "The stories in the Parents Assistant were for older children and 'were devised to illustrate the application of personal and relative duties to more complicated situations at home or at school and thus to lead by degrees into the responsibilities of adult life." (Cutt:Ministering Angels, p. 5. Toronto 1979).Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
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Children's stories, 1860sDimensions
Height
6-3/4 inWidth
4-1/2 inBook Details
Author
Maria EdgeworthPublisher
Ashmead & EvansPlace Published
City
PhiladelphiaState/Province
PennsylvaniaCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1865Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's BindingBinding Notes
Bound in bright green cloth hardcovers with an elaborate gilt stamped illustrated design to the spine. This is the only decoration on the book, save for the blind-stamped publisher's monogram on the front and rear boards. Spine features exaggerated title typography. Very distinctive spine. Yellow endpapers.Relationships
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Notes
Compare binding styles with later edition in an Eastlake binding design (2015.7.84)
