The affecting history of the children in the wood
By: By Clara English
Contributors: Mason, William, active 1808-1844, engraver; W. & S.B. Ives (Firm)
Publisher: Printed and sold by W. & S.B. Ives
Published: 1835
Place of publication: Salem [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 54
Subjects: Children's stories; Brothers and sisters; Juvenile fiction; Older women; Uncles; Orphans; Infanticide; Charity-schools; Women authors; W. & S.B. Ives (Firm)
Other titles: Children in the wood (Ballad)
Work titles: Children in the wood
Notes: In this version, the orphan brother and sister are saved by an old woman and placed in a school of industry.

Wood engravings signed, "Mason," and "WM." Sinclair Hamilton attributes these wood engravings (with some reservations) to William Mason (fl. 1808-1844), a wood engraver who worked in Hartford (approximately 1808-1810), and Philadelphia (approximately 1810-1844). He became an engraving instructor and Philadelphia engraver George Gilbert was a pupil. See Sinclair Hamilton, Early Amer. book illustrators and wood engravers (1958), pages 176-177. See also G.C. Groce and D. H. Wallace, New-York Historical Society's dictionary of artists in Amer. (1957), page 428.

Hymn, page 54.

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