Author: Aunt Julia. [Colman, Julia, (1828-1909)].
Title: The Brandy Drops: Or Charlie's Pledge. A Temperance Story.
Description: New York: Nelson & Phillips / Cincinnati: Hitchcock & Walden, Sunday-School Department, (1858). (1858). - Tricesimo-secundo (32mo), 6 inches high by 4 inches wide. Hardcover, bound in green cloth titled & decorated in gilt on the spine. The covers are bumped, rubbed & stained. 103 pages, illustrated with a frontispiece, 1 plate and 6 textual woodcuts. The bottom of the front hinge is cracked with the first signature starting to come loose. There is occasional foxing and a few page corners are creased with a tiny tear to the front edge of one leaf. Good.

The dramatic frontispiece pictures a drunken man holding a bottle from which a winged serpent rises to attack him.

Julia Colman (1828-1909) wrote under the pen name "Aunt Julia". She was a writer and activist in the temperance movement. She was also a crusader against tobacco. As a young woman in Fond du lac Wisconsin where her father was a missionary to the Oneida people she reached out to the Oneida children. Colman was co-author with Matilda G. Thompson of "The Child's anti-slavery book: containing a few words about American slave children, and stories of slave life".

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.

RARE. Good .

Keywords: CHILDREN; ILLUSTRATED; THE BRANDY DROPS: OR CHARLIE'S PLEDGE. A TEMPERANCE STORY; AUNT JULIA; JULIA COLMAN; ANTI-TOBACCO; TEMPERANCE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; 19TH CENTURY; ILLUSTRATIONS; PLATES; ALCOHOLISM; BRANDY; LIQUOR; MORALITY TALE.

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