Warne's picture puzzle toy book. : Comprising The house we live in. Our holidays. The nursery play book. Holiday fun. : With twenty-four pages of illustrations printed in colours by Kronheim
Frederick Warne and Co. Bedford Street, Covent Garden. ;
Scribner, Welford and Co.,
Date of Publication
[1869]
Physical Description
[12] leaves, [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm
Notes
"This volume contains four distinct subjects, with upwards of eight hundred figures represented in blank spaces. These have to be filled up by the careful cutting out of the coloured pictures from the keys, and their insertion in the blank spaces of the respective books."--preface, second leaf.
Complete catalogue of the names of all the students who have attended the Lititz Academy for Boys, from A.D. 1815 to A.D. 1865, under the direction of Prof. John Beck to which is appended ... a valedictory letter, embracing a brief history of the rise and progress of the institution
The prayer of Thaddeus Hyatt to James Buchanan, president of the United States, in behalf of Kansas, asking for a postponement of all the land sales in that territory, and for other relief : together with correspondence and other documents setting forth its deplorable destitution from the drought and famine : submitted under oath, October 29, 1860
"Mr Hyatt was an abolitionist and inventor. In his opposition to slavery, Hyatt organized the efforts of abolitionists in Kansas to have the territory admitted to the Union as a free-state and campaigned for the federal government to aid Kansans afflicted by drought. Hyatt befriended John Brown and provided Brown with financial support; following the raid on Harpers Ferry, Hyatt was investigated by a committee of the United States Senate." [from Wikipedia]
