Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Andrew, John, 1815-1870
2. Filmer, John
3. Brown & Taggard, publisher.
4. H.O. Houghton & Company, printer.
5. Children's Room Collection.

Description

1. viii, [1], 10-203, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill.; 18 cm.

Series statement

1. Summer-house series
2. Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden), 1827-1898. Summer-house series.

Subject

1. Siblings > Juvenile fiction
2. Children and death > Juvenile fiction
3. Juvenile literature > Massachusetts > Boston > 1860
4. African Americans > Juvenile fiction
5. Children's stories

Genre/Form

1. Juvenile literature – Massachusetts – Boston – 1860.

Call number

1. *KH 1860 Guild 13-420

Note

1. "This volume, while distinct in itself, continues the theme of a previous Summer-house story; the habits of birds and insects, the resources and pleasures of quiet country life. Its especial subject is the formation and subsequent history of the earth, and the continual providence of God."--preface, p. [iii]. Signed C.S.W. (i.e., Caroline Snowden Whitmarsh Guild); dated at Roxbury, May 1st, 1860.
2. Series statement transposed from head of title page.
3. "Riverside, Cambridge: stereotyped and printed by H.O. Houghton and Company."--verso of title page.
4. Last page blank.
5. Wood-engraved illustrations signed by John Andrew and John Filmer.
6. The publisher was at these addresses from 1860-1861. Cf. AAS Nineteenth-Century American Childrens Book Trade Directory
7. "Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1860."

Provenance (note)

1. Inscribed: in black ink, on free upper end leaf, "Presented to Gussie Gearum by the Harlem First Baptist S.S. Christmas 1865".

Binding (note)

1. Bound in publisher's blind stamped green cloth boards, gilt spine.

Author

1. Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden), 1827-1898.

Title

1. Older than Adam. / By the author of "Violet," "Daisy," etc.

Imprint

1. Boston : Brown and Taggard. 25 and 29 Cornhill, [1860?]

Series

1. Summer-house series
2. Guild, C. S. (Caroline Snowden), 1827-1898. Summer-house series.

Provenance

1. Inscribed: in black ink, on free upper end leaf, "Presented to Gussie Gearum by the Harlem First Baptist S.S. Christmas 1865". NN

Binding

1. Bound in publisher's blind stamped green cloth boards, gilt spine. NN

Connect to:

1. Request access to this item in the Schwarzman Rare Books Collection

Added author

1. Andrew, John, 1815-1870, engraver.
2. Filmer, John, engraver.
3. Brown & Taggard, publisher.
4. H.O. Houghton & Company, printer.
5. Children's Room Collection.

Research call number

1. *KH 1860 Guild 13-420