Berquin's Child's own story book
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 25163
Publisher: Published by Johnson & Co.
Published: 1840
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Children's stories, French
Other titles: Child's own story book.
Work titles: Ami des enfans
Notes: Reissue, under cancel title page, of: The children's friend. Translated from the French of M. Berquin. Vol. III. Newburyport: John Mycall for William P. Blake, [1793?] (Evans 25163; Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 71.3); Vol. IV. Boston: Thomas Hall for William P. Blake, 1795 (not in Evans; Welch 71.7).

Date of reissue suggested by typography of title page and style of binding. The printer of the intaglio frontispiece plate was active in Philadelphia from 1833 to 1844.

Signatures: A⁶ (-+A1) B-U⁶ W⁶ X-Y⁶; A⁶(-A1) B-U⁶ W⁶ X-2D⁶ 2E⁴ (2E4 verso blank).

Errors in paging: p. 233, first count, misnumbered 235; p. 97, 205, 305, 2nd count, misnumbered 95, 105, 285.

In purple cloth: covers ornamented in blind; title stamped in gilt on spine.

Frontispiece plate signed: Canvassing. Painted by R.W. Buss. Engraved by Geo. B. Ellis. Printed by D. Stevens.

Evans 25163