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The poor woodcutter : and other stories
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- by T.S. Arthur ; with illustrations from original designs by Croome
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia : J.B. Lippincott and Company, 1863
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (151 pages, 5 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
- data file
- OCLC
- on1162508764
- "While several volumes in this series of books for the young are addressed to children as children, others, like this one, are addressed to them as our future men and women ... Most of the actors are men and women,--and the trials and temptations to which they are subjected, such as are experienced in maturer years."--Introduction, p. 7.
- Title in hand issued with 11 other titles in a 17 x 22 x 12 cm. stiff-paper box.
- Copyright 1852 by Lippincott, Grambo & Co.
- "Stereotyped by L. Johnson & Co. Philadelphia."--verso of title page and colophon.
- Last page blank. Pagination includes three additional wood-engraved plates. Apparently, the sixth plate was intended to be placed between p. 94 and 97, but it was bound between p. 92 and 93.
- In rose cloth.
- Illustrated series title, second plate, signed, "Gihon" (i.e, William B. Gihon).
- "Arthur's juvenile library. J.B. Lippincott & Co. Philada."--series title page.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- The poor woodcutter -- An evening at home -- The temperance meeting in Steve Miller's bar-room -- I'll see about it -- A good investment -- Beauty -- The knight, the hermit, and the man -- The merchant's dream