WRPR 199: Childhood and Children's Literature (HC)

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1868.
First edition, green publisher's cloth binding.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1869.
First edition of the second part of Little Women, which was published a year after the first. Purple publisher's cloth.

Boston: Roberts Brothers,1871.
First edition of the sequel to Little Women. Green publisher's cloth binding.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1870.

Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1876.
Sequel to Eight Cousins.

Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1894.
By Leigh Webster

Philadelphia : Grigg & Elliot, 1835.
6th edition.

Philadelphia : Desilver, Thomas & Co., 1838.

Baltimore : Printed and published by Joseph Robinson, 1811.
By Christian Salzmann and Mary Wollstonecraft.

London : H. Fisher, R. Fisher & P. Jackson, 1835.
With the ownership signature of an American woman.
By Mrs. H.C. Caddick

Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1868-1869.
This includes the original illustrations that went with the novel.

Boston : Roberts Brothers, 1870.
By L.M. Alcott.

Boston : Gould, Kendall, and Lincoln, 1848.
By Harvey Newcomb.

Concord, N.H. : R. Merrill, 1848.
By Mrs. Lovechild

New Haven : Published by S. Babcock, 1849.
Instructive poetry.

Philadelphia : Lindsay and Blakiston, ca. 1850
By Mary Hughes

Boston : Geo. C. Rand, 3 Cornhill : Wm. J. Reynolds & Co., ca 1853.
By Francis Forrester.

New-York : Published by W.B. Gilley, No. 92 Broadway, 1818.
By M. Woodland.

New York : Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, No. 261 Pearl-street.

Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union, No. 146 Chesnut street, 1843.
Such annuals were often given as gifts, and would come out each year.

"being a collection of sentences, divine, moral, and historical : selected from the writings of many ingenious and learned authors, both ancient and modern : intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes"
Worcester [Mass.] : From the Press of Isaiah Thomas, jun., 1795.

Worcester : Published by S. A. Howland

Printed at Worcester [Mass.] : By Isaiah Thomas, jun. sold at his bookstore, sign of Johnson's Head, 1798.
By Phillip Chesterfield and others.

Boston : N. S. and S. G. Simpkins, No. 79, Court-Street, 1831.

New York ; London : D. Appleton and Company, 346 & 348 Broadway, 1860.

Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1872.
By Adeline Trafton.

Boston: Lothrop publishing company, 1897.

New York: Frederick A. Stokes co., 1899.
By Maud Humphrey

New York: Clark, Austin, Co., 1851
By Francis Woodworth

Frederick Warne and Co., 1870s

L.C. Page and Company
By Edith Robinson.

London ; New York : F. Warne, [1900].
By Kate Greenaway, a very important children's illustrator.

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