Nelly and Her Friends / Josephine Franklin
Book
144 pages.Engraved illustrations. Advertisements for children's books to the rear.
The first book in the Martin and Nelly Stories.
"To My Boy and Girl Readers, The Future Men and Women of America, I dedicate this series of books. May they gather from them much useful information, and many noble lessons of patience, with the inevitable trials of daily life." An early example of a series written for American children's entertainment,a s well as moral instruction notable also for being printed in larger typeface, being designed to be read easily by children.
2015.7.34
Kathleen V. Roberts Collection of Decorated Publishers' Bindings
Children's storiesConduct of life1860s
7 in
4-1/2 in
Josephine Franklin
Billings and Hyde
Boston
Massachusetts
United States
North America
1864
Publisher's Binding
Bound in a uniform series binding of bright blue cloth with blind stamped design to front and rear. Highly decorated spine with a distinctive "ribbon or banner" style title. The ribbon, winding around a pole, or thin tree trunk with branches, contains the words "Love" and "Truth".
First published in 1859
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