The Parent's Assistant or Stories For Children / Maria Edgeworth
Entry/Object ID
2015.7.31
Description
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' Bindings
Lexicon
Search Terms
Children's stories, 1860s
Dimensions
Height
6-3/4 in
Width
4-1/2 in
Book Details
Author
Maria Edgeworth
Publisher
Ashmead & Evans
Place Published
City
Philadelphia
State/Province
Pennsylvania
Country
United States
Continent
North America
Date Published
1865
Binding
Binding Type
Publisher's Binding
Binding 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.
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Notes
Compare binding styles with later edition in an Eastlake binding design (2015.7.84)
