Orphan Rachel, or, Fruits of perseverance : embellished with cuts

Identifier

http://dp.la/api/items/66c0db95f8ba37c411eb5c01e2d1450d

Title

Orphan Rachel, or, Fruits of perseverance : embellished with cuts

Date

1843 [i.e. 1845]

Description

Includes 8 woodcuts.
First sentence: "Rachel Maitland was sitting beside her blind grandfather, knitting warm woollen stockings for his use against the ensuing winter; a book lay open before her, from which she was endeavoring to acquire the French language without the assistance of a master."
"Price 6 1-4 cents."--catalogue, p. [4] of wrapper.
"Children's books ... published and for sale, wholesale and retail, by Geo. P. Daniels"--catalogue, p. [4] of wrapper.
Date on p. [1] of wrapper: 1845
In printed wrapper.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: frontispiece; title-page vignette; 6 cuts. 1845 on wrapper, 1843 on title-page. Blue pictorial wrappers. I. Mackenzie. Montreal. May/66. $15.00. Harold Burstein. Waltham, Mass. - '94 - $45.00. Given to McGill 2001.

Subject

Chapbooks--Specimens
Children and death--Juvenile fiction
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction
Orphanages--Juvenile fiction
Children's stories
Chapbooks--Rhode Island--Providence--19th century
Publishers' catalogs--Rhode Island--Providence
Juvenile literature--1843

Source

HathiTrust

Language

English

Relation

Type

text

References

http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/100182989

Date

1843 [i.e. 1845]

Source

HathiTrust

Subject

Chapbooks--Specimens
Children and death--Juvenile fiction
Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction
Orphanages--Juvenile fiction
Children's stories
Chapbooks--Rhode Island--Providence--19th century
Publishers' catalogs--Rhode Island--Providence
Juvenile literature--1843

Citation

“Orphan Rachel, or, Fruits of perseverance : embellished with cuts,” Center for Knit and Crochet Digital Repository, accessed July 30, 2026, http://digital.centerforknitandcrochet.org/items/show/6553.

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