THE BAPTIST CATECHISM
First edition of this series of Baptist questions and answers about the nature of Christian belief aimed at children, with a Wilmington, Delaware imprint.
First edition of this series of Baptist questions and answers about the nature of Christian belief aimed at children, with a Wilmington, Delaware imprint.
First edition of this gothic-tinged chapbook on the death of a moral young woman, told partially through correspondence.
First edition of this little moral tale of the theft of a melon and the resulting punishment for the thief, published by active abolitionist Charles Whipple.
Popular antebellum book of catechisms for children, written for the use of Sunday Schools.
First edition thus, from New Haven published Babcock, of this illustrated collection of hymns by one of the most famous children's writers of the 19th century.
Rare two-volume set of Hadley's Victorian retellings of the two testaments' greatest hits, for the young and young at heart.
Philadelphia edition of this immensely popular book of questions and answers based around the teachings of the Reformed Dutch Church.
First US edition of this book of simple stories about Christian missions around the world.
First edition of this moral tale in the shape of its titular character, with illustrations by noted Philadelphia chromolithographer Ferdinand Moras.
Mid-Victorian edition of this attractive little reader that invites children to consider its many illustrations in order to enhance the moral effect of the text.
First edition of an unusual copy of this Polish Bible story reader, with an imprint altered by an early owner to read a century earlier than it was actually published.
Early Larssen illustrated book – in rare original dust jacket.
Interesting copy with vernacular repairs of this classic work of moral rhymes for young readers, "one of the most popular children's books" of the 18th century (British Library).
Lovely Arts and Crafts edition of Watts' stern and pious children's verses, illustrated by Gaskin's sunlit Greenawayesque visions of figures untroubled by guilt, grief, and sin.