The Island, or, Learning without books
Contributors: Bookhout, Edward, engraver; American Tract Society
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: The American Tract Society
Published: 1859
Place of publication: New York]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Glory of God; Juvenile fiction; Voyages and travels
Other titles: Learning without books; Island
Notes: Date from inscription.

"The beauties of creation"--Page 32, in verse, signed: Heber.

Half title page, engraved and signed by R.S. Bross; some ill. engraved and signed by R.S. Bross or E. Bookhout.

Both R.S. Bross and E. Bookhout were active in New York from 1850 to 1860. Cf. Groce, G.N.Y. Hist. dict. of artists in Amer., 1957.

Publisher's advertisement: page [4] of cover.

Title from added, engraved title page.

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