A century of children’s books
by Florence V. Barry
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About this eBook
- Author
- Barry, Florence V. (Florence Valentine)
- Title
- A century of children's books
- Original Publication
- United Kingdom: Methuen and Co.,1922.
- Credits
- Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Z: Bibliography, Library science
- Subject
- Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 68873
- Release Date
- August 30, 2022
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.A CENTURY OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS — INTRODUCTION
- 5.CHAPTER I CHAP-BOOKS AND BALLADS
- 6.CHAPTER II FAIRY TALES AND EASTERN STORIES
- 7.CHAPTER III THE LILLIPUTIAN LIBRARY
- 8.CHAPTER IV ROUSSEAU AND THE MORAL TALE
- 9.CHAPTER V THE ENGLISH SCHOOL OF ROUSSEAU
- 10.CHAPTER VI DEVICES OF THE MORALIST
- 11.CHAPTER VII SOME GREAT WRITERS OF LITTLE BOOKS
- 12.CHAPTER VIII MISS EDGEWORTH’S TALES FOR CHILDREN
- 13.CHAPTER IX THE OLD-FASHIONED GARDEN OF VERSES
- 14.FOOTNOTES
- 15.APPENDIX A. — I. — II. — III. — IV — V — VI — VII — VIII — IX
- 16.APPENDIX B Chronological List of Children’s Books from 1700 to 1825 — Foreign Books and Translations
- 17.A SELECTION FROM Messrs. Methuen’s PUBLICATIONS — Part II.—A Selection of Series — The Antiquary’s Books — The Arden Shakespeare — Classics of Art — The “Complete” Series — The Connoisseur’s Library — Health Series — The Library of Devotion — Little Books on Art — The Little Guides — Plays — Sport Series — Methuen’s Half-Crown Library — Methuen’s Two-Shilling Library — Part III.—A Selection of Works of Fiction — Methuen’s Half-Crown Novels — Methuen’s Two-Shilling novels
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