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A century of children's books

Name: A century of children's books
Author: Florence V. (Florence Valentine) Barry

by Florence V. (Florence Valentine) Barry

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Appendix: A. List of chap-book romances and tales in order of reference. B. Chronological list of children's books from 1700 to 1825.

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Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Original publisher

United Kingdom: Methuen and Co., 1922.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Release date

2022-08-30

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Children's literature -- Bibliography Children's literature -- History and criticism Children -- Books and reading -- Great Britain

About the author

Florence V. (Florence Valentine) Barry

An early scholar of children’s literature, this writer looked closely at how nursery tales, chapbooks, fairy stories, and moral tales shaped young readers. Her best-known work opens a lively window onto the history of children’s books in Britain.

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