Forgotten Books of the American Nursery - A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
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pictures in Rivington's edition made it, of course, high priced in
comparison with Newbery's books: but New York then contained many families well able to afford this outlay to secure such an acquisition to the family library. Hugh Gaine at this time, as a rule, received each year two shipments of books, among which were usually some for children, yet about 1762 he began to try his own hand at reprinting Newbery's now famous little duodecimos. In that year we find an announcement through the "New York Mercury" that he had himself printed "Divers diverting books for infants." The following list gives some idea of their character: _Just published by Hugh Gaine_ A pretty Book for Children; Or an Easy Guide to the English Tongue. The private Tutor for little Masters and Misses. Food for the Mind; or a new Riddle Book compiled for the use of little Good Boys and Girls in America. By Jack the Giant-Killer, Esq. A Collection of Pretty Poems, by Tommy Tag, Esq. Aesop's Fables in Verse, with the Conversation of Beasts and Birds, at their several Meetings. By Woglog the great Giant. A Little pretty Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master |
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