Name/Title
Child Life in Prose / John Greenleaf WhittierEntry/Object ID
2015.7.319Description
301 pages. Tissue guarded frontis. Illustrated throughout in black and white.
In Whittier's preface he states that the aim is to collect "prose stories and sketches gathered from the literature of widely separated nationalities and periods."
Contents Include: Little Annie's Ramble; Prudy Parlin; The Rainbow Pilgrimage; The Cruise of the Dolphin; The Littler Persian; Bessie's Garden; Paul And Virginia; Boots at the Holly-Tree Inn., etc. Authors include: Nathaniel Hawthorne, "Sophie May", Celia Thaxter, T B. Aldrich, Mary Lamb, Charles Dickens, John Greenleaf Whittier, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Charles Lamb, and Hans Christian Andersen, and many others. A Companion volume to Child Life in Poetry published a few years earlier.Collection
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' BindingsLexicon
Search Terms
Juvenile literature, Children, 1900sDimensions
Height
8-1/2 inWidth
6-1/2 inBook Details
Editor
John Greenleaf WhittierPublisher
Houghton, Mifflin & CompanyPlace Published
City
BostonState/Province
MassachusettsCountry
United StatesContinent
North AmericaDate Published
1873Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding- Art NouveauBinding Notes
Bound in a beautiful light mint green cloth with a floral border design of interweaving vine and leaf stamped in dark green and rose. This border forms a central circle through which a gilt stamped flock of birds soar upward. Gilt titles to cover and spineNotes
Book is dated 1873, but this appears to be an early 20th century binding design, incorporating elements of art-nouveau and a more modern cloth color.
