Bibliophile in the nursery : a bookman's treasury of collectors' lore on old and rare children's books /

Bibliophile in the nursery : a bookman's treasury of collectors' lore on old and rare children's books / edited, with an introduction & notes, by William Targ.

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Main Authors: Targ, William, 1907-1999. (Editor), Hazard, Paul, 1878-1944. (Author), Field, E. M., Mrs., 1856- (Author), Chute, Marchette, 1909-1994. (Author), Altick, Richard D. 1915-2008. (Author), Ball, Elisabeth, 1897-1982. (Author), Winterich, John T., 1891-1970. (Author), Currie, Barton, 1877-1962. (Author), Darton, F. J. Harvey 1878-1936. (Author), Opie, Iona, 1923-2017. (Author), Opie, Peter. (Author), Kiefer, Monica. (Author), Starrett, Vincent, 1886-1974. (Author), Campbell, Joseph, 1904-1987. (Author), Barrett, Clifton Waller, 1901-1991. (Author), Dempsey, David. (Author), Bond, W. H. 1915-2005. (Author), Ford, Henry. (Author), Laub, D. Kenneth. (Author), Blanck, Jacob, 1906-1974. (Author), Queen, Ellery. (Author), Kerlan, Irvin, 1912-1963. (Author), Ellis, Richard W. 1895-1982. (Author), Derleth, August, 1909-1971. (Author), Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963. (Author)
Corporate Author: Pierpont Morgan Exhibition. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cleveland : World Pub. Co., [1957]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Book collecting.
Children's literature > History and criticism.
Children's books > Collectors and collecting.
Children > Books and reading.
Children.
Family members.
Book jackets > 1957.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / William Targ
  • The world republic of childhood / Paul Hazard
  • In the cradle / Mrs. E.M. Field
  • Geoffrey Chaucer goes to school / Marchette Chute
  • Milestones of the nursery / from Pierpont Morgan exhibition
  • The quest of the knight-prisoner / Richard D. Altick
  • The moving market, or, Cries of London town / Elisabeth Ball
  • John Bunyan and The pilgrim's progress / John T. Winterich
  • A fisher of books and Gumuchian / Barton Currie
  • John Newbery / F.J. Harvey Darton
  • Nursery rhymes / Iona and Peter Opie
  • Mental pabulum of godly children / Monica Kiefer
  • Of castaways and islands / Vincent Starrett
  • The work of the Brothers Grimm / Joseph Campbell
  • Little women forever / C. Waller Barrett
  • The wizardry of L. Frank Baum / David Dempsey
  • The publication of Alice's adventures in wonderland / W.H. Bond
  • The McGuffey readers / Henry Ford and D. Kenneth Laub
  • A twentieth-century look at nineteenth-century children's books / Jacob Blanck
  • My first meeting with Sherlock Holmes / Ellery Queen
  • Collecting contemporary books for children / Irvin Kerlan
  • Illustrators in the nursery / Richard Williamson Ellis
  • The Martian artifact / August Derleth
  • The beginnings of "Book week" / Frederic G. Melcher.

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