Grateful Tributes: or
Recollections
of Infancy.
Cambridge History of English Literature - 1908 - v11
1863.
Magazine Articles
The Atlantic Monthly, 1888; Chambers's Journal, 1855, 1862 (on chap-
books); The Cornhill Magazine, 1900; The English Illustrated Magazine,
1883 (The New Hero, by Watts-Dunton, Theodore); Fraser's Magazine,
1846 (Thackeray, W. M. ); The Guardian of Education, 1802-4 (a retrospect by
Trimmer, Mrs); The Imprint, 1913 (Crane, Walter, and others); The Library,
1901; Macmillan's Magazine, 1869 (Yonge, Charlotte M. ); National Review,
1905; Newbery House Magazine, 1890-1 (Welsh, Charles); Notes and Queries,
1913 (11th series, vol. vir: largely bibliographical); Opuscula of the Sette of
Odd Volumes, nos. 11 and 13 (privately ptd, by Welsh, Charles); Quarterly
Review, vols. LXXI, LXXIV, CLXII, CLXXXIII, cxcii, CXCIV; The Studio
(Winter Number), 1897-8 (White, Gleeson); The Sunday at Home (1894).
Germane to the subject, but not concerned with it primarily, are very
many works on education (for which see the various chapters in this
· History), many on morals and the state of society (particularly in the reign of
George III) and many biographies. Most of the introductions to reprints of
individual works contain historical matter. Welsh's Bookseller of the Last
Century gives a full bibliography of all Newbery's publications from 1740 to
1802. Eckenstein's Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes contains a brief
list of works on this highly-specialised branch of the subject : except for the
few convenient summary treatises mentioned above, books on folk-lore pure
and simple are not included here. The Folk-lore Society has traced most
fairy tales to their oral appearance all over the world.
For early writers whose works passed into the hands of children, see the
references in the text to previous volumes of this History. 'Adult' writers
who also wrote books for children are mentioned below.
6
II. CHAPBOOK EDITIONS
These often piratical productions not merely included any new popular
work of the day, but preserved many traditional tales and rimes not otherwise
recorded in print. They were seldom dated, and the old blocks were used over
## p. 477 (#499) ############################################
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Children's Books
477
and over again, in different circumstances. It is impossible to give a strict
bibliography of them. So far as children are concerned, they began about 1700
and died out about 1820; towards the end of that period, the more responsible
publishers copied the chapbook format to some extent, but provided new
type, new blocks and good paper. The chief works regularly produced in chap-
book form were: Bevis of Southampton; The Children (or Babes) in the Wood;
Cock Robin; Cries of London; Cries of York; Robinson Crusoe; Eastern
Tales (Arabian Nights and similar stories); Fables; Fairy Tales (Perrault,
etc. ; usually single tales, not collections); John Gilpin; Guy of Warwick;
Tom Hickathrift; The House that Jack Built; Mother Hubbard; Jack the
Giant-Killer; Jack and Jill; Nursery Rimes of all kinds, under various
titles; Adventures of Philip Quarll; Riddle-books; The Seven Champions of
Christendom; Tom Thumb; Valentine and Orson; Dr Watts's poems, under
various titles; Sir Richard Whittington.
III. SELECTED AUTHORS
In this and the following section only the most important authors and
works are included. In some cases, the first edition cannot be traced, though
it is known that existing editions are not the first. Where dates are given in
brackets, they are those which are certified by the known facts of the author's
life, or by the work of an illustrator, or by the publisher's name.
(Anonymous works are included among Minor Writers, below. )
Aikin, Anna Laetitia (afterwards Mrs Barbauld). Hymns in Prose for
Children. 1781.
Lessons for Children. 4 parts. 1808.
Life of. Memoir of Mrs B. , by Le Breton, A. L. 1874.
Aikin, A. L. and J. (Barbauld and Aikin). Evenings at Home. 6 vols.
1792-6
Aikin, John. The Calendar of Nature. 2nd edn. 1785.
Aikin, Lucy. Juvenile Correspondence. 2nd edn. 1816.
Poetry for Children. (Selected by L. A. ) 1803.
Memoirs etc. of. Ed. by Le Breton, P. H. 1864.
Also many versions of classical works in words of one syllable, under
pseud. Godolphin, Mary.
Argus, Arabella. The Adventures of a Donkey. 1815. Further Adventures.
1821.
The Juvenile Spectator. 2 parts. 1810.
Ostentation and Liberality. 2 vols. 1821.
Ballantyne, Robert Michael. See Reference Catalogue of current literature,
issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons), and the D. of N. B.
Barbauld, Mrs. See Aikin, A. L. , ante.
Belson, Mary. See Elliott, Mary, post.
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. See chap. ix, ante.
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Country Rhimes for Children.
By J. B. 1686. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Temporal Things
Spiritualised (a revised and shortened version of the first edn), 1701;
3rd edn, 1707; 9th edn, as Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things
Spiritualised, 1724. Facsimile reprint of 1st edn, with introd. by
Brown, John, 1889.
Burton, Richard. See Crouch, N. , post.
• Carroll, Lewis' (i. e. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge). Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland. 1865. Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found
there. 1871. Both illustrated by Tenniel, Sir John. The Nursery Alice.
1890.
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478
[CH.
Bibliography
'Carroll, Lewis. ' The Hunting of the Snark. 1876.
Sylvie and Bruno. 1889.
Sylvie and Bruno concluded. 1893.
Life and Letters of. By Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. 1898.
Chapone, Mrs. See ante, chap. xv.
Cole, Sir Henry (pseud. Summerley, Felix). The Home Treasury. 12 vols.
1843-55.
Crossman, Samuel. The Young Man's Calling: or the Whole Duty of
Youth. . . . And also, Divine Poems. 1685. Other edns: 1695, 1725.
Crouch, N. (pseud. Burton, Richard, or B. , R. ). Winter Evening Entertain-
ments; in two Parts. 6th edn. 1737. [The first edition appears to have
been published at least by 1685. ]
Youth's Divine Pastime 3rd edn. 1691.
Day, Thomas. The Children's Miscellany: in which is included the History
of Little Jack. 1787.
The History of Sandford and Merton. 3 vols. Vol. I. 1783. Vol. II.
1786. Vol. 111. 1789. Translated into French, 'An VI de la République. '
Dickens, Charles. Holiday Romance. 1868.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See ‘Carroll, Lewis,' ante.
Dorset, Mrs C. A. The Lion's Masquerade. 1807. Facsimile rpt, ed.
Welsh, C. 1883.
The Peacock At Home. ' By a Lady. 1807. Facsimile rpt, ed. Welsh, C.
1883.
The Peacock and Parrot on their Tour. 1816.
Think before you Speak, or The Three Wishes. 1809.
Edgeworth, Maria. See ante, chap. XIII.
Elliott, Mary (born Belson). (Where no dates are given, the publishers' names
necessitate a date between 1805 and 1825. )
The Adventures of Thomas Two Shoes : being a sequel to The modern
Goody Two Shoes (v. post). n. d. (not later than 1818].
Confidential Memoirs, or the Adventures of a Parrot, a Greyhound, a Cat,
and a Monkey. 1821.
Grateful Tributes: or Recollections of Infancy. n. d. (not later than 1816].
Idle Ann, or the Dunce Reclaimed. n. d.
Industry and Idleness: a pleasing and instructive tale. 1811.
The Modern Goody Two Shoes. n. d. (not later than 1818].
The Orphan Boy, or a Journey to Bath. n. d. (not later than 1816].
Precept and Example, or Midsummer Holidays. n. d. (not later than
1812].
The Rambles of a Butterfly. 1819.
Simple Truths in Verse. n. d. (not later than 1816].
The Sunflower, or Poetical Truths for Young Minds. 1822.
Tales for Boys. n. d.
Tales for Girls. n. d.
Tales of Truth. n. d.
Truth our Best Friend. 1825.
[A majority of the above were translated into French soon after
publication. ]
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Brownies, and Other Tales. Illustd by
Cruikshank. 1870.
Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1884.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing. 1873.
Jackanapes. Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1884.
Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, and Other Tales. Illustd by Cruikshank, G. 1873.
Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1885.
a
:
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479
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Mrs Overtheway's Remembrances. 1869.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales. 1882.
Six to Sixteen. 1876.
The Story of a Short Life. 1885.
Life of J. H. E. and her Books, by Gatty, Horatia K. F. 1885.
Fables. It is impossible to trace the exact descent of fables into children's lite-
rature. The translations under the name of Aesop (q. v. under Foreign
Works, sect v, post) gave them literary currency, and Gay's metrical
versions stereotyped them. (For Gay, see ante, vol. ix, chap. vi. ) There
do not seem to have been any definite early versions (for children) of
Bidpai (* Pilpay'), Babrius, or Phaedrus. Probably a certain amount
of oral tradition entered into the chapbook versions, of which there were
many. See, also, s. v. La Fontaine (Foreign Works, sect. v, post).
Fairy Tales. See Ewing, J. H. , Jacobs, J. , Lang, A. (in this sect. ); The Court
of Oberon, Mother Bunch, Mulock, D. M. (in sect. IV); and under Foreign
Works, s. v. Asbjörnsen, Grimm, Perrault: see, also, History and Criticism,
sect. I, ante.
Fenn, Eleanor (Lady F. ). Cobwebs to Catch Flies. 2 vols. n. d.
Fables in Monosyllables. n. d.
The Fairy Spectator. 1789.
The Juvenile Tatler. 1789.
Mrs Lovechild's Golden Present. n. d. [Published by Newbery, John. ]
Short Sermons for Young Persons. By Lovechild, Mrs. n. d. (New-
bery. ]
(Lady F. also wrote as Mrs Teachwell, but it is not possible to identify
the exact works certainly. It was a common pseudonym 1750–1820. ]
Life of. See Unstoried in History. By Festing, Gabrielle. 1901.
[Chap. vi deals with Lady F. and her sister, from family documents. ]
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess, or Little Female Academy. [Anonymous. ]
2nd edn. 1749. Revised, and practically rewritten and remodelled, by
Mrs Sherwood in 1820. [Sometimes quoted as Mrs Teachum. ]
Gatty, Margaret. Aunt Judy's Tales. 1859.
The Fairy Godmothers and other Tales. 1851.
Parables from Nature. 1855–71. Complete edn, with memoir by
Ewing, J. H. 1880.
Gay, John. (Fables. ) See ante, vol. ix, chap. VI.
Godolphin, Mary. See Aikin, Lucy, ante.
Goldsmith, Oliver (? ). Goody Two Shoes. (The History of Mrs Margery
Two-Shoes. ) 1766. Facsimile rpt of earliest extant edn, ed. by Welsh, C. ,
with introd. 1881.
For Goldsmith's undoubted works, see ante, vol. x, chap. ix.
Guyse, John, D. D. Youth's Monitor. 3rd edn. 1747.
Youth reminded of a Judgment to come. 1729.
Hack, Maria. English Stories. 1820. 2nd series. 1820. 3rd series. 1825.
Grecian Stories. 1819.
Harry Beaufoy. 1821.
Lectures at Home. 2nd edn. 1841.
Tales of the Great and Brave. n. d.
Winter Evenings. 4 vols. 1818-19.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Bruey. 2nd edn. 1873.
Little Pillows.
Magazine Articles
The Atlantic Monthly, 1888; Chambers's Journal, 1855, 1862 (on chap-
books); The Cornhill Magazine, 1900; The English Illustrated Magazine,
1883 (The New Hero, by Watts-Dunton, Theodore); Fraser's Magazine,
1846 (Thackeray, W. M. ); The Guardian of Education, 1802-4 (a retrospect by
Trimmer, Mrs); The Imprint, 1913 (Crane, Walter, and others); The Library,
1901; Macmillan's Magazine, 1869 (Yonge, Charlotte M. ); National Review,
1905; Newbery House Magazine, 1890-1 (Welsh, Charles); Notes and Queries,
1913 (11th series, vol. vir: largely bibliographical); Opuscula of the Sette of
Odd Volumes, nos. 11 and 13 (privately ptd, by Welsh, Charles); Quarterly
Review, vols. LXXI, LXXIV, CLXII, CLXXXIII, cxcii, CXCIV; The Studio
(Winter Number), 1897-8 (White, Gleeson); The Sunday at Home (1894).
Germane to the subject, but not concerned with it primarily, are very
many works on education (for which see the various chapters in this
· History), many on morals and the state of society (particularly in the reign of
George III) and many biographies. Most of the introductions to reprints of
individual works contain historical matter. Welsh's Bookseller of the Last
Century gives a full bibliography of all Newbery's publications from 1740 to
1802. Eckenstein's Comparative Studies in Nursery Rhymes contains a brief
list of works on this highly-specialised branch of the subject : except for the
few convenient summary treatises mentioned above, books on folk-lore pure
and simple are not included here. The Folk-lore Society has traced most
fairy tales to their oral appearance all over the world.
For early writers whose works passed into the hands of children, see the
references in the text to previous volumes of this History. 'Adult' writers
who also wrote books for children are mentioned below.
6
II. CHAPBOOK EDITIONS
These often piratical productions not merely included any new popular
work of the day, but preserved many traditional tales and rimes not otherwise
recorded in print. They were seldom dated, and the old blocks were used over
## p. 477 (#499) ############################################
XVI]
Children's Books
477
and over again, in different circumstances. It is impossible to give a strict
bibliography of them. So far as children are concerned, they began about 1700
and died out about 1820; towards the end of that period, the more responsible
publishers copied the chapbook format to some extent, but provided new
type, new blocks and good paper. The chief works regularly produced in chap-
book form were: Bevis of Southampton; The Children (or Babes) in the Wood;
Cock Robin; Cries of London; Cries of York; Robinson Crusoe; Eastern
Tales (Arabian Nights and similar stories); Fables; Fairy Tales (Perrault,
etc. ; usually single tales, not collections); John Gilpin; Guy of Warwick;
Tom Hickathrift; The House that Jack Built; Mother Hubbard; Jack the
Giant-Killer; Jack and Jill; Nursery Rimes of all kinds, under various
titles; Adventures of Philip Quarll; Riddle-books; The Seven Champions of
Christendom; Tom Thumb; Valentine and Orson; Dr Watts's poems, under
various titles; Sir Richard Whittington.
III. SELECTED AUTHORS
In this and the following section only the most important authors and
works are included. In some cases, the first edition cannot be traced, though
it is known that existing editions are not the first. Where dates are given in
brackets, they are those which are certified by the known facts of the author's
life, or by the work of an illustrator, or by the publisher's name.
(Anonymous works are included among Minor Writers, below. )
Aikin, Anna Laetitia (afterwards Mrs Barbauld). Hymns in Prose for
Children. 1781.
Lessons for Children. 4 parts. 1808.
Life of. Memoir of Mrs B. , by Le Breton, A. L. 1874.
Aikin, A. L. and J. (Barbauld and Aikin). Evenings at Home. 6 vols.
1792-6
Aikin, John. The Calendar of Nature. 2nd edn. 1785.
Aikin, Lucy. Juvenile Correspondence. 2nd edn. 1816.
Poetry for Children. (Selected by L. A. ) 1803.
Memoirs etc. of. Ed. by Le Breton, P. H. 1864.
Also many versions of classical works in words of one syllable, under
pseud. Godolphin, Mary.
Argus, Arabella. The Adventures of a Donkey. 1815. Further Adventures.
1821.
The Juvenile Spectator. 2 parts. 1810.
Ostentation and Liberality. 2 vols. 1821.
Ballantyne, Robert Michael. See Reference Catalogue of current literature,
issued annually (J. Whitaker and Sons), and the D. of N. B.
Barbauld, Mrs. See Aikin, A. L. , ante.
Belson, Mary. See Elliott, Mary, post.
Blake, William. Songs of Innocence. See chap. ix, ante.
Bunyan, John. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Country Rhimes for Children.
By J. B. 1686. A Book for Boys and Girls: or, Temporal Things
Spiritualised (a revised and shortened version of the first edn), 1701;
3rd edn, 1707; 9th edn, as Divine Emblems, or Temporal Things
Spiritualised, 1724. Facsimile reprint of 1st edn, with introd. by
Brown, John, 1889.
Burton, Richard. See Crouch, N. , post.
• Carroll, Lewis' (i. e. Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge). Alice's Adventures in
Wonderland. 1865. Through the Looking-Glass and what Alice found
there. 1871. Both illustrated by Tenniel, Sir John. The Nursery Alice.
1890.
## p. 478 (#500) ############################################
478
[CH.
Bibliography
'Carroll, Lewis. ' The Hunting of the Snark. 1876.
Sylvie and Bruno. 1889.
Sylvie and Bruno concluded. 1893.
Life and Letters of. By Collingwood, Stuart Dodgson. 1898.
Chapone, Mrs. See ante, chap. xv.
Cole, Sir Henry (pseud. Summerley, Felix). The Home Treasury. 12 vols.
1843-55.
Crossman, Samuel. The Young Man's Calling: or the Whole Duty of
Youth. . . . And also, Divine Poems. 1685. Other edns: 1695, 1725.
Crouch, N. (pseud. Burton, Richard, or B. , R. ). Winter Evening Entertain-
ments; in two Parts. 6th edn. 1737. [The first edition appears to have
been published at least by 1685. ]
Youth's Divine Pastime 3rd edn. 1691.
Day, Thomas. The Children's Miscellany: in which is included the History
of Little Jack. 1787.
The History of Sandford and Merton. 3 vols. Vol. I. 1783. Vol. II.
1786. Vol. 111. 1789. Translated into French, 'An VI de la République. '
Dickens, Charles. Holiday Romance. 1868.
Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge. See ‘Carroll, Lewis,' ante.
Dorset, Mrs C. A. The Lion's Masquerade. 1807. Facsimile rpt, ed.
Welsh, C. 1883.
The Peacock At Home. ' By a Lady. 1807. Facsimile rpt, ed. Welsh, C.
1883.
The Peacock and Parrot on their Tour. 1816.
Think before you Speak, or The Three Wishes. 1809.
Edgeworth, Maria. See ante, chap. XIII.
Elliott, Mary (born Belson). (Where no dates are given, the publishers' names
necessitate a date between 1805 and 1825. )
The Adventures of Thomas Two Shoes : being a sequel to The modern
Goody Two Shoes (v. post). n. d. (not later than 1818].
Confidential Memoirs, or the Adventures of a Parrot, a Greyhound, a Cat,
and a Monkey. 1821.
Grateful Tributes: or Recollections of Infancy. n. d. (not later than 1816].
Idle Ann, or the Dunce Reclaimed. n. d.
Industry and Idleness: a pleasing and instructive tale. 1811.
The Modern Goody Two Shoes. n. d. (not later than 1818].
The Orphan Boy, or a Journey to Bath. n. d. (not later than 1816].
Precept and Example, or Midsummer Holidays. n. d. (not later than
1812].
The Rambles of a Butterfly. 1819.
Simple Truths in Verse. n. d. (not later than 1816].
The Sunflower, or Poetical Truths for Young Minds. 1822.
Tales for Boys. n. d.
Tales for Girls. n. d.
Tales of Truth. n. d.
Truth our Best Friend. 1825.
[A majority of the above were translated into French soon after
publication. ]
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. The Brownies, and Other Tales. Illustd by
Cruikshank. 1870.
Daddy Darwin's Dovecot. Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1884.
A Flat Iron for a Farthing. 1873.
Jackanapes. Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1884.
Lob-lie-by-the-Fire, and Other Tales. Illustd by Cruikshank, G. 1873.
Illustd by Caldecott, R. 1885.
a
:
## p. 479 (#501) ############################################
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Children's Books
479
Ewing, Juliana Horatia. Mrs Overtheway's Remembrances. 1869.
Old-Fashioned Fairy Tales. 1882.
Six to Sixteen. 1876.
The Story of a Short Life. 1885.
Life of J. H. E. and her Books, by Gatty, Horatia K. F. 1885.
Fables. It is impossible to trace the exact descent of fables into children's lite-
rature. The translations under the name of Aesop (q. v. under Foreign
Works, sect v, post) gave them literary currency, and Gay's metrical
versions stereotyped them. (For Gay, see ante, vol. ix, chap. vi. ) There
do not seem to have been any definite early versions (for children) of
Bidpai (* Pilpay'), Babrius, or Phaedrus. Probably a certain amount
of oral tradition entered into the chapbook versions, of which there were
many. See, also, s. v. La Fontaine (Foreign Works, sect. v, post).
Fairy Tales. See Ewing, J. H. , Jacobs, J. , Lang, A. (in this sect. ); The Court
of Oberon, Mother Bunch, Mulock, D. M. (in sect. IV); and under Foreign
Works, s. v. Asbjörnsen, Grimm, Perrault: see, also, History and Criticism,
sect. I, ante.
Fenn, Eleanor (Lady F. ). Cobwebs to Catch Flies. 2 vols. n. d.
Fables in Monosyllables. n. d.
The Fairy Spectator. 1789.
The Juvenile Tatler. 1789.
Mrs Lovechild's Golden Present. n. d. [Published by Newbery, John. ]
Short Sermons for Young Persons. By Lovechild, Mrs. n. d. (New-
bery. ]
(Lady F. also wrote as Mrs Teachwell, but it is not possible to identify
the exact works certainly. It was a common pseudonym 1750–1820. ]
Life of. See Unstoried in History. By Festing, Gabrielle. 1901.
[Chap. vi deals with Lady F. and her sister, from family documents. ]
Fielding, Sarah. The Governess, or Little Female Academy. [Anonymous. ]
2nd edn. 1749. Revised, and practically rewritten and remodelled, by
Mrs Sherwood in 1820. [Sometimes quoted as Mrs Teachum. ]
Gatty, Margaret. Aunt Judy's Tales. 1859.
The Fairy Godmothers and other Tales. 1851.
Parables from Nature. 1855–71. Complete edn, with memoir by
Ewing, J. H. 1880.
Gay, John. (Fables. ) See ante, vol. ix, chap. VI.
Godolphin, Mary. See Aikin, Lucy, ante.
Goldsmith, Oliver (? ). Goody Two Shoes. (The History of Mrs Margery
Two-Shoes. ) 1766. Facsimile rpt of earliest extant edn, ed. by Welsh, C. ,
with introd. 1881.
For Goldsmith's undoubted works, see ante, vol. x, chap. ix.
Guyse, John, D. D. Youth's Monitor. 3rd edn. 1747.
Youth reminded of a Judgment to come. 1729.
Hack, Maria. English Stories. 1820. 2nd series. 1820. 3rd series. 1825.
Grecian Stories. 1819.
Harry Beaufoy. 1821.
Lectures at Home. 2nd edn. 1841.
Tales of the Great and Brave. n. d.
Winter Evenings. 4 vols. 1818-19.
Havergal, Frances Ridley. Bruey. 2nd edn. 1873.
Little Pillows.
