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Title: The Child&Apos;S Companion and Juvenile Instructor
Description: London, Religious Tract Society, 1862-1863. Leather. Two volumes of these editions of the Child's Companion from the Religious Tract Society, full of stories and illustrations for young readers. Two volumes bound into one, being the volumes for the year 1862 and 1863. Illustrated with many in-text images and a colour frontispiece to the volume for 1863. A collection of stories, games, poetry, and puzzles for children, including: Alice and Her Pupil, Worship of the crows, Birthday verses, Harry and the Bear, John's New Year's Gift, Jesus and the Little Children, and more. Produced by The Religious Tract Society, a British evangelical Christian organization founded in 1799, known for publishing a variety of popular religious and quasi-religious texts in the nineteenth century. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. Bound in half calf with marbled boards. Externally, sound with rubbing and minor bumping to the extremities. Light loss to the head and tail of the spines as well as the board edges. Light fading to the spine with the odd small mark to the boards. Internally, generally firmly bound with the odd page loosening, including the colour plate. Pages are bright with the odd small spot or handling mark. Minor age toning to the extremities. With a contemporary ink inscription to the front pastedown. Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Good .

Keywords: Child's Companion Juvenile Religious Tract Society Companion Not Stated


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