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

Author(s)

• Targ, William

Bibliographic Information

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

edited, with and introduction & notes, by William Targ

World Pub. Co., c1957

Note

Bibliographical footnotes

Includes index

Contents of Works

• 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 / 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

• NCID: BA19135745
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cleveland
• Pages/Volumes: 503 p., [14] p. of plates
• Size: 25 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : Z992
  • DC : 028.5
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Book collecting
  • LCSH : Rare books -- Bibliography
  • LCSH : Rare books -- Collectors and collecting
  • LCSH : Children's literature -- Bibliography
  • LCSH : Children's literature -- History and criticism