• Little workers

Collections:

• Lloyd E. Cotsen

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9956194673506421

Language:

• English

Call number:

• Eng 19Q 26977

Extent:

• [2], 8, 8, 8, 8 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.

Format:

• Book

Type:

• Printed boards
• Publishers' advertisements
• Juvenile literature
• Juvenile fiction

Description:

• Separate verse and prose story-portraits of little girl workers (the little cook, the little housemaid, the little nurse, etc.), moral stories, and practical information related to the trades (cf. McLoughlin Bros.' similarly-titled 1886 work, which includes little boy-workers as well).
• Illustrations: 4 plates depicting select child-workers, and smaller outline drawings of them and hosehold objects throughout the text (cf. the illustrations in the McLoughlin ed., depicting somewhat older--and more "Americanized"?--children).

Publisher:

• London ; Edinburgh ; New York : T. Nelson and Sons (Paternoster Row), 1884.

Subject:

• Occupations—Juvenile literature
• Girls—Juvenile fiction
• Children's stories, English
• Children's poetry, English
• Printed boards
• Publishers' advertisements—19th century

Title sort:

• Little workers.

Contents:

• The little cook -- Bread-making -- The Kettle and its friends -- Going to market -- The little housemaid -- Washing day -- Helping mother -- The grocer's shop -- The little nurse -- The little dressmaker -- The little table maid -- Dolly's doctor -- The doll's party.

Created:

• 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z

Date:

• 1884

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/hm50tz65f

Location:

• CTSN Eng 19Q 26977

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

Range label:

• Logical

Contributor:

• Thomas Nelson & Sons

Binding note:

• Light blue decorated paper bds., with title outlined against maroon background and chromolithographed illustration (of the Little Nurse) on upper cover and publisher's advertisements in maroon on lower; blue cloth spine strip.