Author: Halsey, Rosalie V. (Rosalie Vrylina)
Title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery; a History of the Development of the American Story-Book, by Rosalie V. Halsey
Description: Boston, C.E. Goodspeed & Co. 1911. Hardcover. viii, [1], 244, [1] p. front. plates, facsims. 26 cm. "Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911, by D.B. Updike, at the Merrymount Press, Boston. Very good condition Contents: Introductory--The play-book in England.--Newbery's books in America.--Patriotic printers and the American Newbery.--The child and his book at the end of the eighteenth century.--Toy-books in the early nineteenth century.--American writers and English critics.

Keywords: Children--Books and Reading--United States--History; Children's Literature, American--Bibliography; Nursery Rhymes--Bibliography; Merrymount Press


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