Anecdotes for Little Boys
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. Well-illustrated chapbook with a woodcut on each page. 32mo. [2], 3-8pp. In yellow publisher’s wraps.
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![Cheap Repository]. Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of the Gentleman Highwayman....](/pictures/thumb/187.jpg?v=1605579225)
[Cheap Repository]. Execution of Maclean, commonly known by the name of the Gentleman Highwayman.
London: J. Marshall & R. White; Bath: S. Hazard, [1795]. A scarce Cheap Repository printing of the story of James Maclean, who was executed at the infamous Tyburn tree on October 3, 1750, following a short but successful stint as a highwayman who rid his victims of their possessions in.....
![Freshman Broadside]. Maggots, you Lowly, Pus-Dripping, Stinking, Contaminated, Infected Snakes....](/pictures/thumb/185.jpg?v=1605578760)
[Freshman Broadside]. Maggots, you Lowly, Pus-Dripping, Stinking, Contaminated, Infected Snakes. . .
[1934]. A broadside which was presumably posted on campus to terrorize freshman at an unfortunately unknown university. The vitriol flows from the Class of ’34 in a Clark Griswold-esque tirade – ultimately with the meager demand that the freshmen refrain from smoking cigarettes on campus. As collector and.....
How to Be Saved
American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street: Philadelphia, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Miniature. 8pp. In publisher’s yellow wraps, which are variant from the UF copy both in color and this copy has a woodcut of a fly on the rear wrap.
Jan Harmsen, the Holland Orphan Boy
New York: American Tract Society, 150 Nassau-Street, [n.d., between 1847-76]. Features several engravings. Likely published between 1854-57 given the Philadelphia address noted on the rear wrapper. 24mo. [2], [3]-16pp. Relatively scarce in the separate offprint.
The Runaway
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. 32mo. [2] 3-13pp., [3]. In publisher’s pictorial wrappers.
The Sailor’s Son
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. 32mo. [1], 2-7pp., [1]. A brief but heavily illustrated chapbook, featuring a woodcut on each page. In self wrappers.
The Triumphs of Grace.
Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, “take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important.....
The Underground Traveller and His Wonderful House
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street; New York: 375 Broadway, n.d., but see OCLC 905659420 calculating date to roughly 1867]. 32mo. [2], 5-16pp. In publisher’s wraps.
Lawyer’s Account Book
London: [London, January 1, 1771 through March 23, 1771]. A three-month glimpse into the professional, and a bit of leisurely, life of a London lawyer. More than a simple ledger, it includes tidbits about the lawyer’s work in London, even including the most menial details such as, meeting “Humm, a......
The Practical Joke, or the Christmas Story of Uncle Ned
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William St. [n.d., 1856-57]. “I never heard of a lazy child on a Christmas morning”. A pleasant chapbook with five full-page woodcut illustrations. 32mo. [1], 2-16pp. Scarce with one institution located on Worldcat as of October 2020 holding the imprint with.....
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