Beads and shot
By: translated from the German by Sarah A. Myers
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: John Weik, publisher
Published: 1850
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 120
Subjects: Children's stories, German; Conduct of life; Juvenile fiction; Parent and child; Lace and lace making; Manufactures; Courts; Brothers and sisters; Peddlers; Peddling
Notes: Short stories. Includes information on the manufacture of glass, bullets, lace, and silk.

Cover bears the motto: Pray and work then God will help!.

According to Philadelphia city directories, John Weik was listed as a stationer between 1850 and 1851; he was listed as an individual publisher between 1854 and 1857. John Weik imprints bearing issue dates of 1851 and 1856 have been located.

In chromolithographed boards.

Plates lithographed.

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