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Sampling of Early Children's Books |
| This illustrated cover is from an early edition of Little Prudy |
Kay E. Vandergrift |
| Social History of Children's Literature Page |
This list includes both individual titles and series books. These books are from the personal collection of the professor and offer the opportunity to handle books that children of earlier years used.
Abbott, Jacob. Rollo in Paris. Boston, MA: W. J. Reynolds & Co, 1854. Abbott, Jacob. The Rollo Story Books/Rollo's Garden. Boston, MA: Phillips, Sampson & Company, 1857. Alger, Horatio, Jr. Tony the Tramp or Right is Might. New York: Hurst & Company, (n.d.). Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Lob-Lie-By-The-Fire, and Other Tales. New York: A. L. Burt Company, (n.d.). Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Story of a Short Life. Boston, MA: Roberts Brothers, 1887. Finley, Martha. Elsie Dinsmore. New York: Dodd, Mead Company, 1867. (Or any other title in series) Goodrich, Samuel Griswold. Tale of the Sea and Land. By Peter Parley. New York: Sheldon & Co, 1863. Hegan, Alice Caldwell. Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch. New York: The Century Co., 1901c. Henty, George Alfred. For Name and Fame; or, Through Afghan Passes. New York: A. L. Burt Company, (n.d.) (after 1902). Jewett, John Howard. Gyp At Home and Abroad. New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1907. May, Sophie. Fairy Book, Little Prudy Series. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1865. May, Sophie. Aunt Madge's Story; Little Prudy's Flyaway Series. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1894. Memoirs of a London Doll, Written by Herself. Edited by Mrs. Fairstar. Boston, MA: Ticknor, Reed and Fields, 1852. Molesworth, Mary Louisa (Stewart). Robin Redbreast; A Story for Girls. New York: A. L. Burt Company, 189 Optic, Oliver. Work and Win; or Nody Newman on a Cruise. Boston, MA: Lee and Shepard, 1869. Pollard, Josephine. Our Hero General U.S. Grant, When, Where and How He Fought, in Words of One Syllable with Eighty-Six Etchings by Edwin Forbes. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1885. Standish, Burt L. Dick Merriwell's Fighting Chance or the Split in the Varsity. New York: Street & Smith Company, 1910. Wiggin, Kate Douglas. The Birds' Christmas Carol. Cambridge, MA: The Riverside Press, 1890. Wiggin, Kate Douglas. A Child's Journey With Dickens. Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1912. Yonge, Charlotte M. The Cook and the Captive, or, Attalus the Hostage. New York: Thomas Whittaker, 1894. Yonge, Charlotte Mary. Countess Kate, by the author of The Heir of Redclyffe. 3rd Edition. London: J. and C. Mozley, Masters and Son, 1871. Created September 20, 1995 and is continuously revisedSCILS, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |