Boston: Published by T. H. Carter and Co., 1844.
Price: $150.00
Hardcover. First edition. 24mo. 143pp. + a leaf of publisher's ads, all edges gilt, illustrated with extra-engraved title page, hand-colored frontispiece and full page black-and-white plates. A literary annual gear gilt-stamped brown cloth with floral decoration on spine, and front cover vignette of three children, one of whom is reading and a second playing with a hoop, Owner's contemporary, neat ink inscription on publisher's presentation leaf dated in year of publication ("Presented to" Miss Helen Pollard" by her father Otis Pollard. Moderate wear at tips of spine, few faint spots of discoloration to cloth, scattered light foxing to text, else a very good, bright copy.
A literary annual geared towards a juvenile audience. Only this 1844 annual has a hand-colored frontispiece. Published annually from 1840 to 1847 originally, under the full title, 'Christmas and New Year's Gift for Children' as "A Christmas and New Year's Gift," anonymously printing poems, short stories and "charades," including "Deaf and Dumb Boy," "The Shepard's Dog" (with vignette of a dog), "The Little Boat Builder," "The Nightingale and Bulfinch, or the Travelling Birds," "The Dutch Sailors and the Bears," etc.
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