The Youth's friend 1831. /

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform title:	Youth's friend (Philadelphia, Pa. : 1838h)
Imprint:	Philadelphia : American S.S. Union, 146 Chestnut St., [1838]
Description:	1 online resource (volumes) : illustrations
Language:	English
Series:	American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society Select library ; 104 American Historical Periodicals from the American Antiquarian Society. Select library (American Sunday School Union) ; 104.
Subject:	Sunday school literature. Re-issues (Publishing) Relief prints. Quarter bindings (Binding) Marbled papers (Binding) Juvenile literature -- Periodicals. Poems -- 1838.
Format:	E-Resource Journal
Local Note:	This title was originally housed with the other volumes in the Select library (121 v.; AAS copy lacks v. 115) in a wooden cabinet measuring 29 x 18 3/4 x 5 inches. The Select library, with cabinet, was issued for sale to schools and family libraries for $33. The American Antiquarian Society purchased the Select library volumes and cabinet from Benjamin Tighe, Sept. 20, 1949. The cabinet is displayed in the office of the Curator of Children's Literature, Antiquarian Hall.
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12790310

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Other authors / contributors:	Gilbert, George, engraver. American Sunday-School Union.
Frequency:	Frequency unknown
Notes:	Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society. Miscellaneous prose and poetry. A reissue of annual compilations of the monthly periodical first published in Philadelphia, Cincinnati, New York and Boston. Issued in 1838 as v. 104 of the Select library, a set of 121 volumes in uniform binding selected as the best of the Union's publications. Accompanied by a descriptive catalogue. Cf. American Sunday-School Union. Fourteenth annual report ... May 22, 1838, p. 23, 64. In marbled boards with leather spine. Numbered on spine: 104. Wood-engravings signed: GG [i.e., George Gilbert?].

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