The girl's true joy :
being the histories of Jane Dewdrop, or Sincerity meets its just reward : and William and Jessie, or, The beauty of telling the truth /
by Mrs. Mary Durang ; with six colored engravings.

Description

Main Author

Durang, Mary.

Related Names

Weed, Edwin A., approximately 1828-, engraver.
Turner & Fisher
Fisher & Brother

Language(s)

English

Published

[Philadelphia] : Fisher & Brother, publishers. No. 8 South Sixth Street, Philadelphia, 74 Chatham Street, New York, 71 Court Street, Boston; 64 Baltimore Street, Balt, [1847?]

Subjects

Deaf children > Deaf children / Juvenile fiction.
Play > Play / Juvenile fiction.
Truthfulness and falsehood > Truthfulness and falsehood / Juvenile fiction.
Children > Children / Books and reading > Children / Books and reading / Juvenile fiction.
African American children > African American children / Juvenile fiction.
Charity > Charity / Juvenile fiction.
Brothers and sisters > Brothers and sisters / Juvenile fiction.
Natural history.
Conduct of life > Conduct of life / Juvenile fiction.
Children's stories.
Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
Russia > Russia / Social life and customs.
Juvenile literature > Juvenile literature / 1857.

Note

Wood-engraved illustrations hand-colored. Fourth plate (p. 55) signed "Weed sc." (i.e., Edwin A. Weed?).
In purple cloth.
Pagination includes [6] leaves of plates.
Copyright 1847 by Turner & Fisher. Fisher & Brother published at 8 South 6th St., Philadelphia, in 1857 only; at 74 Chatham St., New York, from 1850 to 1860; at 71 Court St., Boston, from 1850 to 1860; and at 64 West Baltimore St., Baltimore, from 1855 to 1864.
Series title transposed from head of title page.

Physical Description

106 pages : color illustrations ; 15 cm.

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