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Title: Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
A History of the Development of the American Story-Book

Author: Rosalie V. Halsey

Release Date: February 25, 2006 [eBook #17857]

Language: English

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FORGOTTEN BOOKS OF THE AMERICAN NURSERY

A History of the Development of the American Story-Book

by

ROSALIE V. HALSEY

[Illustration: _The Devil and the Disobedient Child_]

Boston
Charles E. Goodspeed & Co.
1911
Copyright, 1911, by C.E. Goodspeed & Co.
Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November
1911, by D.B. Updike, at The Merrymount Press, Boston

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. Introductory 3

II. The Play-Book in England 33

III. Newbery's Books in America 59

IV. Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery 89

V. The Child and his Book at the End of the Eighteenth Century 121

VI. Toy-Books in the early Nineteenth Century 147

VII. American Writers and English Critics 191

Index 233

ILLUSTRATIONS

_The Devil