Bibliophile in the nursery
Subtitle: a bookman's treasury of collectors' lore on old and rare children's books.
Publisher: Scarecrow Reprint Corp.
Published: 1969
Place of publication: Metuchen, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 503
Subjects: Children's books -- Collectors and collecting.; Children's literature -- Bibliography.; Rare books -- Bibliography.; Book collecting.
Notes: Bibliographical footnotes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction, by W. Targ.; title: The world republic of childhood, by P. Hazard.; title: In the cradle, by Mrs. E. M. Field.; title: Geoffrey Chaucer goes to school, by M. Chute.; title: Milestones of the nursery, from Pierpont Morgan exhibition.; title: The quest of the knight-prisoner, by R. D. Altick.; title: The moving market; or, Cries of London town, by E. Ball.; title: John Bunyan and The pilgrim's progress, by J. T. Winterich.; title: A fisher of books and Gumuchian, by B. Currie.; title: John Newbery, by F. J. H. Darton.; title: Nursery rhymes, by I. and P. Opie.; title: Mental pabulum of godly children, by M. Kiefer.; title: Of castaways and islands, by V. Starrett.; title: The work of the Brothers Grimm, by J. Campbell.; title: Little women forever, by C. W. Barrett.; title: The wizardry of L. Frank Baum, by D. Dempsey.; title: The publication of Alice's adventures in wonderland, by W. H. Bond.; title: The McGuffey readers, by H. Ford and D. K. Laub.; title: A twentieth-century look at nineteenth-century children's books, by J. Blanck.; title: My first meeting with Sherlock Holmes, by E. Queen.; title: Collecting contemporary books for children, by I. Kerlan.; title: Illustrators in the nursery, by R. W. Ellis.; title: The Martian artifact, by A. Derleth.; title: The beginnings of "Book week", by F. G. Melcher.