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Fire-side stories, for interesting and improving the minds of youth
Fire-side stories, for interesting and improving the minds of youth
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Fire-side stories, for interesting and improving the minds of youth

Dateapproximately 1832
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Illustrated with five steel engravings, and twenty wood cuts.
"Sears and Trapp, printers, 11, Budge Row, London"--verso of title-page.
Frontispiece: Illustration of a schoolboy placed upon a "blockhead's" stool wearing a fool's cap for not paying attention to his lessons.
The first nine stories are by Miss Ospringe, the last three by Mrs. Clara Hall.
Twelve stories previously published, as numbers 6, 7, 9, and 10, in the series Parlour stories.
Undated. Date from printer's form of name and years of activity, see P.A.H. Brown London publishers and printers p. 172.
Contents note: Education -- Fearfulness -- Independence -- Industry -- Secrecy -- Revenge -- Flattery -- Liberty -- Friendship -- Perseverance -- Deception -- Sympathy.
DimensionsCover size: 14.5 cm x 9 cm (5 11/16 in. x 3 9/16 in.)
Extent
  • 72; 71; 71; 70 pages : illustrations
Language
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131048635239D