The Parent's Assistant, or, Stories for Children / Maria Edgeworth
Book
547 pages. With illustrations by H.W. Herrick.
A New Edition.
Contains 17 stories. Stories include: The Orphans; Lazy Lawrence; The False Key; Simple Susan; The White Pigeon; The Birthday Present; Eton Montem; Forgive and Forget; Waste Not, Want Not, Old Poz; The Mimic; The Barring Out; The Bracelets; The Little Merchants; Tarlton; The Basket Woman.
"The stories in the Parents Assistant were for older children and 'were devised to illustrate the application of personal and relative duties to more complicated situations at home or at school and thus to lead by degrees into the responsibilities of adult life." (Cutt:Ministering Angels, p. 5. Toronto 1979)
2015.7.84
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Conduct of lifeJuvenile literature1880s
7 in
Maria Edgeworth
Henry Walker Herrick
New
Riverside Standard Juveniles
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
circa 1880
Riverside Press
Cambridge
Massachusetts
United States
North America
Publisher's Binding- Eastlake Design
Bound in bright green cloth hardcovers with an Eastlake stamped design of long-stemmed daisies in black and gilt to the cover and spine. Brown stone endpapers.
Compare binding style to the edition of 1865 (2015.7.31)