Author: Aunt Julia
Title: The Brandy Drops: Or Charlie's Pledge. A Temperance Story
Description: NY: Nelson & Phillips/Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden. Sunday-School Department, (1858). (1858). NY: Nelson & Phillips/Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden. Sunday-School Department, (1858). (1858). Good. - 12mo, green cloth (bumped, rubbed & stained); titled & decorated in gilt on spine. 103pp. (cracked; first signature starting to come loose; occasional foxing; tiny tear to front edge of one leaf; a few page corners creased). Illustrated with a frontispiece, 1 plate and 6 textual woodcuts. Good.

The copyright is that of Carlton & Porter who published a series of children's chap-books for the Sunday School Union of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The temperance story at hand is most probably a work in that series.

This title is very scarce. Not located in RLIN. Good .

Keywords: CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; TEMPERANCE; ALCOHOLISM; BRANDY; LIQUOR.

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