The calendar of nature
Subtitle: designed for the instruction and entertainment of young persons
By: By J. Aikin
Contributors: Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870; Samuel Wood & Sons; Samuel S. Wood & Co
Publisher: Published by Samuel Wood & Sons, no. 261, Pearl-Street; and Samuel S. Wood & Co. no. 212, Market-Street, Baltimore.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
Subjects: Children's poetry; Natural history; Calendar; Months; Seasons; Country life; Farm life; Zodiac
Notes: "The plan itself is a borrowed one; and you must certainly recollect its model in one of your own little books, where ... you give a brief description of the several months ... What you have done for a child three or four years, I have attempted for young people from ten to fourteen. I have collected more circumstances, entered into some details of natural history, opened some general views of that grand system, the Economy of nature"--To Mrs. Barbauld ("Dear sister"), p. [5-6], signed by J. Aikin, and dated at Warrington, May, 20, 1784.

Samuel Wood & Sons published at 261 Pearl St., New York, between 1817 and 1835. Samuel S. Wood & Co. was located at 212 Market St., Baltimore, between 1818 and at least 1824. A Baltimore directory for 1825 has not been located. Samuel S. Wood had re-located to New York by 1826. Shaw & Shoemaker entry assigns a date of 1818. Mistakenly dated 1800 in Evans; dated ca. 1820 by Shipton & Mooney; dated ca. 1823 by Rosenbach.

In variant bindings.

Some wood-engravings signed: "A." [i.e., Alexander Anderson?].

"The rural calendar" (in verse)--p. [85]-104.

"An account of the origins of the names of some months of the year, and of the days of the week, now commonly used."--p. [105-107].

"A table of the sun's entrance into each sign of the zodiac."--p. [108].

Evans 36782

Shaw & Shoemaker 43032

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 0

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 620