Accession number
PML 83558
Creator
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860.
Published
Brattleboro, Vt. : Published by Geo. H. Salisbury, 1845.
Notes
"Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1832, by Samuel G. Goodrich ... ".
"For the content ... we ... have made free use of the several ... publications of Captain Thomas Brown of Edinburgh" -- Introd.
"Illustrated by 200 engravings".
Illustrations signed variously: GLB [George Loring Brown]; JD or ID [J. Downes]; and Aptn or Appleton [Thomas G. Appleton?]; several of these illustrations were used in Peter Parley's tales of animals (Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832) and A System of natural history (Brattleboro: Peck & Wood, 1834). Cf. Hamilton, S. Early Amer. bk. ill., p. 84-5, 120).
Page 176 misnumbered 76.
"For the content ... we ... have made free use of the several ... publications of Captain Thomas Brown of Edinburgh" -- Introd.
"Illustrated by 200 engravings".
Illustrations signed variously: GLB [George Loring Brown]; JD or ID [J. Downes]; and Aptn or Appleton [Thomas G. Appleton?]; several of these illustrations were used in Peter Parley's tales of animals (Boston: Carter, Hendee & Co., 1832) and A System of natural history (Brattleboro: Peck & Wood, 1834). Cf. Hamilton, S. Early Amer. bk. ill., p. 84-5, 120).
Page 176 misnumbered 76.
Description
324 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscription on recto of frontispiece leaf: "The summer father was fifteen years old he worked four months for a man in Hinsdale [N.H.?], who gave him this book, with the promise of his wages later, but they never appeared. This book represents $16.00."
Binding
Brown cloth blocked in blind, spine gilt; crudely re-jointed with black cloth.
Classification
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