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FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY
A History of the Development of the American Story-Book
by
ROSALIE V. HALSEY
[Illustration: _The Devil and the Disobedient Child_]
Boston
Charles E. Goodspeed & Co.
1911
Copyright, 1911, by C.E. Goodspeed & Co.
Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November
1911, by D.B. Updike, at The Merrymount Press, Boston
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. Introductory 3
II. The Play-Book in England 33
III. Newbery's Books in America 59
IV. Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery 89
V. The Child and his Book at the End of the Eighteenth Century 121
VI. Toy-Books in the early Nineteenth Century 147
VII. American Writers and English Critics 191
Index 233
ILLUSTRATIONS
_The Devil and the Disobedient Child_ Frontispiece
From "The Prodigal Daughter." Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5,
Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?]
Facing
Page
_The Devil appears as a French Gentleman_ 26
From "The Prodigal Daughter." Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5,
Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?]
_Title-page from "The Child's New Play-thing"_ 44
Printed by J. Draper; J. Edwards in Boston [1750]. Now in the
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
_Title-page from "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"_ 47
Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the New
York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
_A page from "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"_ 49
Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the New
York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations
_John Newbery's Advertisement of Children's Books_ 60
From the "Pennsylvania Gazette" of November 15, 1750
_Title-page of "The New Gift for Children"_ 70
Printed by Zechariah Fowle, Boston, 1762. Now in the Library of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
_Miss Fanny's Maid_ 74
Illustration from "The New Gift for Children," printed by Zechariah
Fowle, Boston, 1762. Now in the Library of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania
_A page from a Catalogue of Children's Books printed by Isaiah
Thomas_ 106
From "The Picture Exhibition," Worcester, MDCCLXXXVIII
_Illustration of Riddle XIV_ 110
From "The Puzzling-Cap," printed by John Adams, Philadelphia, 1805
_Frontispiece from "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"_ 117
From one of _The First Worcester Edition_, printed by Isaiah
Thomas in MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the Library of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania
_Sir Walter Raleigh and his Man_ 125
Copper-plate illustration from "Little Truths," printed in
Philadelphia by J. and J. Crukshank in 1800
_Foot Ball_ 126
Copper-plate illustration from "Youthful Recreations," printed in
Philadelphia by Jacob Johnson about 1802
_Jacob Johnson's Book-Store in Philadelphia about 1800_ 155
_A Wall-paper Book-Cover_ 165
From "Lessons for Children from Four to Five Years Old," printed
in Wilmington (Delaware) by Peter Brynberg in 1804
_Tom the Piper's Son_ 170
Illustration and text engraved on copper by William Charles, of
Philadelphia, in 1808
_A Kind and Good Father_ 172
Woodcut by Alexander Anderson for "The Prize for Youthful
Obedience," printed in Philadelphia by Jacob Johnson in 1807
_A Virginian_ 174
Illustration from "People of all Nations," printed in Philadelphia
by Jacob Johnson in 1807
_A Baboon_ 174
Illustration from "A Familiar Description of Beasts and Birds,"
printed in Boston by Lincoln and Edmands in 1813
_Drest or Undrest_ 176
Illustration from "The Daisy," published by Jacob Johnson in 1808
_Little Nancy_ 182
Probably engraved by William Charles for "Little Nancy, or, the
Punishment of Greediness," published in Philadelphia by Morgan &
Yeager about 1830
_Children of the Cottage_ 196
Engraved by Joseph I. Pease for "The Youth's Sketch Book,"
published in Boston by Lilly, Wait and Company in 1834
_Henrietta_ 200
Engraved by Thomas Illman for "The American Juvenile Keepsake,"
published in Brockville, U.C., by Horace Billings & Co. in 1835
_A Child and her Doll_ 206
Illustration from "Little Mary," Part II, published in Boston by
Cottons and Barnard in 1831
_The Little Runaway_ 227
Drawn and engraved by J.W. Steel for "Affection's Gift," published
in New York by J.C. Riker in 1832
CHAPTER I
_Introductory_
Thy life to mend
This _book_ attend.
_The New England Tutor_
London (1702-14)
To be brought up in fear
And learn A B C.
FOXE, _Book of Martyrs_
_Forgotten Books of the American Nursery_