Original poems, for infant minds
By: By the Taylor family. ; [Four lines of verse from Watts]
Contributors: Taylor, Ann, 1782-1866; Taylor, Isaac, 1759-1829; Taylor, Isaac, 1787-1865; O'Keeffe, Adelaide, 1776-1865; Barton, Bernard, 1784-1849; Francis, Charles Stephen, 1805-1887, publisher; Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver; Childs, Shubael D., engraver; Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873, engraver; Wilson, James, 1764-1841, bookseller; Munroe & Francis
Publisher: Munroe and Francis, 128 Washington-Street, corner of Water-Street; and C.S. Francis, 189 Broadway, New-York, opposite the park.
Published: 1827
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Children's poetry; Conduct of life; Juvenile poetry; Birds; Seasons; Dolls; School attendance; Chimney sweeps; Hygiene; Parents; Animals; Blind; Older people; Children with disabilities; Orphanages
Notes: "If a hearty affection for that interesting little race, the race of children, is any recommendation, the writers of the following pages are well recommended; and if to have studied in some degree their capacities, habits, and wants, with a wish to adapt these simple verses to their real comprehensions and probable improvement--if this has any further claim to the indulgence of the public, it is the last and only one they attempt to make."--Preface, p. [4].

Cover varies: Original poems for infant minds. Illustrated with fifty-five wood engravings. By the late Jane Taylor, and others.

By Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor, Rev. Isaac Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jr., Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Bernard Barton.

Error in paging: p. 150 misnumbered 50.

Some wood-engravings signed by Abel Bowen, Shubael Childs, and Alonzo Hartwell.

"New juvenile books, ornamented with numerous engravings, and in fancy covers. Published by Munroe & Francis, Boston, and Charles S. Francis, New-York."--catalogue, lower cover.

Shoemaker 30764

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 444