Children's Books in England: Five Centuries of Social LifeWith literature as his central theme, the author of this history of children's books in England also wove in biography and facts of social and commercial history. This edition has additional biographical notes, a supplementary chapter on the late Victorian and Edwardian eras and 60 illustrations. |
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Page 250
... period rendered the chapbook , with its now glaring defects , obsolete . They almost - but certainly not quite - killed the Moral Tale , in the restricted sense of the term . They mitigated - indeed , turned to joy - the Awful Warning ...
... period rendered the chapbook , with its now glaring defects , obsolete . They almost - but certainly not quite - killed the Moral Tale , in the restricted sense of the term . They mitigated - indeed , turned to joy - the Awful Warning ...
Page 276
... period of history , but for the accident of language so deftly and easily used . They were fortunate in being accompanied by one hundred and twenty illustrations by Arthur Hughes , perhaps the lightest , most graceful and most ...
... period of history , but for the accident of language so deftly and easily used . They were fortunate in being accompanied by one hundred and twenty illustrations by Arthur Hughes , perhaps the lightest , most graceful and most ...
Page 321
... period . The prodigal variety of illustrated books and baroque bindings during the high - Victorian period clearly presupposes the drawing - room as the place where books shall be read , just as the vogue for ostentatious colour - plate ...
... period . The prodigal variety of illustrated books and baroque bindings during the high - Victorian period clearly presupposes the drawing - room as the place where books shall be read , just as the vogue for ostentatious colour - plate ...
Contents
An Introductory Survey I | 1 |
i Fables | 9 |
ii Romance and Manners | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Adventures advertised Aesop Alice amusement appeared artist Beatrix Potter bibliography BOOK LIST bookseller Boy's Own Paper boys catalogue century chapbook chapter child children's books children's literature collection coloured copy Crusoe E. V. Lucas early Edgeworth edition editor Elizabeth Newbery England English engravings Fables fact Fairy fairy-tales famous fiction firm George Gesta Romanorum girls Godwin Harris Harvey illustrations invented John Newbery juvenile kind known Lamb later Lewis Carroll Library literary lived London magazine Maria Edgeworth Mary meant mind Moral Tale Mother natural never Newbery's Nursery Rhymes original Parley perhaps period persons Peter poems poetry popular printed probably produced published Puritan readers reprint Robin Robinson romance Sherwood Society Songs St Paul's story Talbot Baines Reed Taylor things Thomas trade translated Trimmer verse Victorian vols volume William Darton words writers wrote young
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International Companion Encyclopedia of Children's Literature Peter Hunt,Sheila G. Bannister Ray No preview available - 1996 |
Een geschiedenis van het jeugdtheater: de ontwikkeling van het kindbeeld in ... Ton Panken No preview available - 1998 |