A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

Title

en_US A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US This book has a dust jacket (book cover)

en_US John Newbury

Creator

en_US Newbery, John See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Newbury?, John

en_US Thwaite, M.F. (Essayist)

Date

2016-01-25T15:52:36Z

en_US 1992-09

en_US 1967

Date Available

2016-01-25T15:52:36Z

Date Issued

en_US 1744

Abstract

en_US This beautiful little book is the first American edition of a facsimile done in Great Britain in 1966 from the 11th edition of 1767. An extensive introduction stresses that Newbury was following Locke's revolutionary philosophy. One result was that amusement was announced as a (new) goal for this piece of children's literature. Traces Newbury's fascinating life and career as a publisher. Aesop's Fables books around his time came from Croxall and Richardson; Newbury himself also did a book of fables by Abraham Aesop, Esq. (145), which is mentioned in the final section made up of ads for Newbury's other books (141ff.). Simple woodcuts throughout; introduction points out that Bewick will soon revolutionize book illustration. The pages move through Great A to Little a and so on. At Great X we get four fables: The Wolf and the Kid, The Husbandman and the Stork, BW, and Mercury and the Woodman (with only 2 hatchets involved). After each there is a nice little letter of application from Jack the Giant Killer. Good proverbs on 137-40.

Identifier

en_US 1275 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/76853

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Harcourt Brace & World,

en_US New York

Subject

en_US PZ6.N37 1967 See all items with this value

en_US Collection See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole