Flowers of delight
Subtitle: from the Osborne collection of early children's books
By: culled by Leornard de Vries ; designed by Eric Ayers
Contributors: Ayers, Eric; Toronto Public Libraries. Boys and Girls Division
Publisher: McClelland
Published: 1965
Place of publication: Toronto
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: Children's literature, American; Children's literature, English
Notes: "An agreeable garland of prose and poetry for the instruction and amusement of little masters and misses and their distinguished parents ... selected with the greatest care from books for juvenile minds 1765-1830"--t.p.

Contains hundreds of the best poems, nursery rhymes, chap books and stories written between 1765 and 1830.

DON52/2006

"Notes on the original books": p. 226-230.  Bibliography: p. 232.