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| Title | Silver primer; or, First book for children (cover) |
| Author | Folklore Society (Great Britain) |
| Publisher | Kendrew, James, d. 1841
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| Publisher Location | England--York--Colliergate |
| Publication Date | [1840?] |
| Printer | Kendrew, James, d. 1841
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| Illustrator | Unknown
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| Image Production Process | Relief prints--wood engravings
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| Notes | Illustrated with uncolored wood engravings.
In publisher's green printed wrappers; title and imprint within an ornamental frame and vignette of rooster on upper wrapper; list of "school-books sold by James Kendrew" on lower wrapper; vignette of schoolboy reading a book on title page.
Approximate date based on uniformity with other chapbooks in this "series"; cf. discussion of dating problems in Davis, R., Kendrew of York, p. 43 ("The best that can be said... is that they were published between c.1815 and James Kendrew's death in January 1841). Gumuchian gives date of circa 1830. |
| Subjects (LCSH) | Readers (Primary)
Alphabet books -- Specimens
Chapbooks, English -- Specimen
Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature. |
| Category | Chapbooks
Primers (Instructional books)
Moral instruction
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| Language | English |
| Digital Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection |
| Digital ID Number | CHL0189 |
| Repository | University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections Division |
| Repository Collection | Children's Historical Literature Collection. PE1119.A1 S55 1840 |
| Object Type | Chapbook
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| Physical Description | 12 p.: illustrated; 14 x 9 cm. |
| Digital Reproduction Information | Scanned from original book at 400-600 dpi in TIFF format using a ScanMaker 6800, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2008. |
| Exhibit Checklist | Exhibit checklist 6.8 |
