The Idle girl
Contributors: Phelps, Ansel, 1789-1868, publisher
Publisher: E. Turner
Published: 1828
Place of publication: Northampton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 18
Subjects: Fashion; Conduct of life; Juvenile poetry; Children's stories, American; Girls; Juvenile fiction; Laziness; Slackers; School children; Miniature books; American Didactic fiction; Pride and vanity; Specimens; American Chapbooks
Notes: Wrapper imprint statement varies: A. Phelps--Greenfield.

Variant states: one state bears numeral "9" at head p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a standing man with a camel in the background; wood engraving of a girl feeding chickens appears on p. [4] of wrapper. Another state bears numeral "1" at head of p. [1] of wrapper; p. [1] of wrapper also bears a wood engraving of a bunch of grapes; a wood engraving of a cat and a dog appear on p. [4] of wrapper.

Pagination: [3], 6-18 p.

"Pride mortified."--poem, p. 16-18 (i.e., p. [14-16]).

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The American Antiquarian Society holds a Turner issue bearing an 1828 imprint date. Elisha Turner died May 13, 1843 at age 41. (See Hampshire gazette, May 16, 1843.) Ansel Phelps was a newspaper publisher in Greenfield, Mass. between 1811 and 1868. He was last listed as a bookseller in the Massachusetts state directory for 1855.

Text in English.

Catalogued 20160425 bhealy

Boston Public Library (Jordan Collection) copy bound in yellow printed paper wrapper. Printed on wove papers. Housed in protective archival envelope.