New Castle, Delaware: Oak Knoll Press & The British Library, 2006. 9 x 12 inches. hardcover, dust jacket. 320 pages. When was it that someone decided that books might be written and published for child readers? It's fair to say that some kinds of text-alphabets, fables, the Lord's Prayer, may have been seen as fundamental to the process of learning to read from the beginning of book making, but when did children come to be.....
San Francisco, CA: Published by the Western Amateur Publishing Company: C. B. Monson, C. M. Ludlam, J. P. Tracy, and S. R. Church, 1872. tall 8vo. original printed wrappers. pp. 26-52; two leaves ads at rear; full-page illustrated ad at rear wrapper (woodcut by Shourds, of street view of Haynes & Lawton, "Manufactures of Extra Quality Silver-Plated ware, on White Metal. Market St., under Grand Hotel"). Much of its content identified as "Written for the.....
