The play-day book
Subtitle: new stories for little folks
By: by Fanny Fern [Mrs. Sara Barton] ; illustrated by Fred. M. Coffin
Contributors: Coffin, Frederick M., illustrator; Bookhout, Edward, engraver; Johnson, Charles E., engraver; Orr, Nathaniel, engraver; Spiegle, Charles, approximately 1831- engraver
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Mason Brothers, 108 and 110 Duane-Street
Published: 1857
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
Subjects: Children's stories; City and town life; Juvenile fiction; Child labor; Circus; Children with disabilities; Temperance; Indians of North America
Notes: "Since 'Little ferns' was published, I have had many letters, and messages, from little children all over the country, asking me 'to write them soon another little book of stories.' Here is one that I have prepared ... I call it 'The play-day book;' because I made it to read when you are out of school, and want to be amused. If, while you are looking only for amusement, you should happen to find instruction, so much the better."--Preface, pages [iii]-iv, signed: Fanny Fern. Includes stories about the boyhoods of George Law (pages 107-119), and Horace Greeley (p. [256]-268).

By Sara P.W. Parton.

Copyright 1856 by Mason Brothers.

"Stereotyped by Thomas B. Smith, 82 & 84 Beekman St. Printed by C.A. Alvord, 15 Vandewater St."--Title page verso.

Wood-engraved plates variously signed by Edward Bookhout, N. Orr & Co., and by Charles Spiegle and Charles E. Johnson.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.