Evenings at home, or, The juvenile budget opened
By: by Dr. Aikin and Mrs. Barbauld
Contributors: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825; Adams, Joseph Alexander, 1803-1880, engraver; Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889, illustrator; Harper, Philip J. A. (Jacob Arcularius), 1824-1896, inscriber former owner
Publisher: Harper & Brothers, 82 Cliff-Street
Published: 1839
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
Subjects: Children's stories, English
Other titles: Evenings at home; Juvenile budget opened
Notes: "From the fifteenth London edition, illustrated with engravings after Harvey and Chapman by Adams."

"Harper's edition"--Spine.

In original publisher's binding: green ribbon-embossed cloth; floral pattern stamped in gilt on spine; yellow endpapers; all edges gilt.

Preface dated New-York, Jan. 1839.

This book was reviewed in Gentleman's Magazine and American Monthly Review, January 1839, page 67.

Frontispiece and added page signed by J. Alexander Adams, sc.,  frontispiece also signed J.G. Chapman, del.

LC copy signed by  Philip J.A. Harper, March 27, 1839, and again in an adult hand. Bears his bookplate which is signed W. Roberts (Probably William Roberts an engraver active in New York City, 1846-1876, cf. Who was who in American art). Philip J.A. Harper was a senior partner at Harper & Brothers.  Annotated with a brief critique of Adam's engravings.