Die kleine Louise und ihre Vögel
Contributors: Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Der Amerikanischen Tractat-Gesellschaft
Published: 1858
Place of publication: Neu-York
Language: ger
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Children's stories, French; Sunday school literature; Girls; Juvenile fiction; Birds; Animal welfare; Winter
Other titles: Louise und ihre Vögel.
Work titles: Louisa's tenderness to the little birds in winter. German
Notes: At head of title, "No. 8." At foot of title page: "Gr. 8."

Cover title: Louise und ihre Vögel.

An adaptation and translation of one of the tales in Arnaud Berquin's L'ami des enfants. Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books. Sometimes published as: Louisa and the little birds.

Possibly adapted and translated by Richard Johnson. See M.J.P. Weedon, "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery" The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 55.

The American Tract Society was first located at 150 Nassau St., New York in 1832. A new typeface was introduced in 1848. The American Antiquarian Society copy is printed in the new typeface. According to researcher Jane R. Pomeroy, this title was among a series of numbered German tracts listed as published by the ATS in its annual catalog (1858), page 239.

Wrapper printed in green ink.

"Lieder."--Page 27-32. Without music.

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