"If a hearty affection for that interesting little race, the race of children, is any recommendation, the writers of the following pages are well recommended; and if to have studied in some degree their capacities, habits, and wants, with a wish to adapt these simple verses to their real comprehensions and probable improvement--if this has any further claim to the indulgence of the public, it is the last and only one they attempt to make."--Preface, p. [4].

Cover varies: Original poems for infant minds. Illustrated with fifty-five wood engravings. By the late Jane Taylor, and others.

By Ann Taylor, Jane Taylor, Rev. Isaac Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jr., Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Bernard Barton.

Error in paging: p. 150 misnumbered 50.

Some wood-engravings signed by Abel Bowen, Shubael Childs, and Alonzo Hartwell.

"New juvenile books, ornamented with numerous engravings, and in fancy covers. Published by Munroe & Francis, Boston, and Charles S. Francis, New-York."--catalogue, lower cover.

Shoemaker 30764

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 444