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My uncle the clockmaker / a tale by Mary Howitt
Bib ID 8531099
Format BookBook, OnlineOnline [text, online resource]
Author
Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888, author
 
Online Access
Description New York : D. Appleton & Company, [1864?] 
1 online resource (177 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations. 
Series

Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888. Howitt's popular tales.

Women's Studies Archive: Voice and Vision.

Notes

Supposedly written by William Howitt for Mary Howitt during the fatal illness of their son, Claude. Cf. Catalogue of the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books.

D. Appleton and Company published in New York from 1833 to at least 1876; copy in hand bears inscription dated Jan. 13th 1865.

Last page blank.

In green cloth.

Includes metal-engraved frontispiece and title plate.

"Howitt's popular tales."--series title, spine.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.

Subjects Children's stories.  |  Country life -- Great Britain -- Juvenile literature.  |  Debt -- Juvenile literature.  |  Young men -- Juvenile literature.  |  Young women -- Juvenile literature.  |  Yorkshire (England) -- Juvenile literature.
Other authors/contributors Howitt, William, 1792-1879, author  |  Howitt, Mary (Mary Botham), 1799-1888

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