Our young folks : an illustrated magazine for boys and girls.

Accession number: 
PML 75176, 83630, 86466-68
Published: 
[Boston : Ticknor and Fields, 1865-1873]
Description: 
9 v. : ill., plates (wood engravings) ; 22 cm.
Credit: 
PML 75176: Purchased on the Harper fund, 1977.
Notes: 

Title from cover.
Publisher changes: 1868-1873, Fields, Osgood & Co.
Also distributed by the American News Company, New York; T.B. Pugh, Philadelphia; Western News Co., Chicago.
On wrappers: Electrotyped and Printed at the University Press, Cambridge, by Welch, Bigelow & Co.
Editors: 1865-1867, J.T. Trowbridge, Gail Hamilton, Lucy Larcom; 1868-1873, J.T. Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom.
Vol. 6, nos. 2-4, contain first American printings of Edward Lear's poems "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat," "The Duck and the Kangaroo," and "The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly."
The Lear poems are illustrated by J.H. Howard.
Library has autograph manuscripts of "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat" and "The Duck and the Kangaroo" dated October 14, 1869 in an album belonging to Annie Field, wife of the publisher (MA 925) as well as an autograph manuscript of "The Owl and the Pussey Cat with an estimated date of 1868 (MA 2482).
Library has: v. 2, no. 8 (PML 83630, containing How Johnny bought a sewing-machine / Horatio Alger); v. 5, no. 1-12 (PML 75176, containing The story of a bad boy / Thomas Bailey Aldrich), and v. 6, no. 2-4 (PML 86466-68).

Binding: 
Printed orange wrappers, in gray cases.
Provenance: 
Signatures: A.A. Gilmore, R. Worthington, Julia H. Worthington.
Department: