John Williams, or The sailor boy.

Description

Main Author

Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.

Related Names

Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873, engraver.
Isaac R. Butts and Co.
Bowles and Dearborn

Language(s)

English

Published

Boston : Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street, 1827

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Seafaring life > Seafaring life / Juvenile fiction.
Temperance > Temperance / Juvenile fiction.
Conduct of life > Conduct of life / Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Massachusetts > Chapbooks / Massachusetts / Boston > Chapbooks / Massachusetts / Boston / 19th century
Relief prints.
Printed wrappers (Binding)
Juvenile literature > Juvenile literature / 1827.

Note

Includes 3 woodcuts.
First sentence: "It was a severely cold morning in January, which succeeded a heavy fall of snow through the night, five winters ago, that I remarked from my parlour window, a child lingering round the gateway; he was apparently ten or eleven years of age, and miserably clad in tattered garments, that seemed ill calculated to exclude the cold."
Wrapper illustratation signed "H" (i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?).
In printed wrapper.
Pages 4-34 also numbered 62-92.
Copyright 1827 by Bowles & Dearborn.
By Dorothea Lynde Dix.

Physical Description

34 p. : ill. ; 15 x 10 cm.

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