Emma and Clara, or The careless and careful girls : and questions - Parker, Miss (Albany : Ease's Bookstore & Circulating Library, 1839)
In verse.
"Toy books, bublished [i.e., published] by R.H. Pease ... Price six cents each. Emma and Clara, with 5 colored engravings. ... Mr. Pease keeps constantly on hand, and for sale at his Circulating Library, no. 207 North Market-st. a general assortment of plain and fancy staionary, school books, and a great variety of children's books ... March, 1839."--advertisement, back cover.
Wood engravings hand-colored.
"Embellished with engravings."--Title page.
Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
American Antiquarian Society copy has drawings tracing the engravings on the versos of the illustrations. Inscribed: Carrie L. Waugh, present from her Ma; Katie E. Waugh; Miss Sarah Leetchwell, Albany, N.Y. aged 10 years.
Keywords: Children's poetry; Picture books for children; Conduct of life -- Juvenile poetry; Girls -- Juvenile poetry; Mothers and daughters -- Juvenile poetry; Needlework -- Juvenile poetry; Natural theology -- Juvenile poetry