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Olive leaflets ; Leaflets of the law of kindness for children
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- Creator
- edited by Elihu Burritt
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- New-York : S.S. and W. Wood ; Philadelphia : Olive-Leaf Circle, [between 1852 and 1855?]
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : illustrations
- data file
- OCLC
- on1162342631
- A collection of fifteen numbered tracts "Published for the New-York Olive Leaf Circle, by S.S. & W. Wood, 261 Pearl Street" (colophon), followed by sixteen numbered "Leaflets of the law of kindness edited by Elihu Burritt" (caption title), all in a green publisher's cloth binding, with no collective title page. Each tract is 4 p. long, except tract no. 10, which is 8 p; the leaflets are paged sequentially. Issue in hand contains an illustration signed by the New York School of Design for Women; this school was established in 1852.
- Title from upper cover.
- Samuel S. and William Wood published at 261 Pearl St., New York, from 1836 to 1855. The first Olive Leaf Society was established by Elihu Burritt in 1850; cf. P. Tolis, Elihu Burritt (Hamden, Conn., 1968), p. 167.
- Wood-engraved illustration, p. [1] of tract no. 10, signed "Fuller sc." (i.e., Sarah E. Fuller?) and "NY School of Design."
- For the first fifteen tracts, each tract is paged 1-4.
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.