HYMNS FOR CHILDREN, IN PROSE

New Haven: S. Babcock, 1843. Very good plus.. First edition thus, from New Haven published Babcock, of this illustrated collection of hymns by one of the most famous children's writers of the 19th century. HYMNS FOR CHILDREN was "immensely influential in [its] time; [it] was reprinted throughout the nineteenth century... and [its] effect on nineteenth- and early twentieth-century middle-class people, who learned to read from them, is incalculable" (McCarthy, 196). We locate only one holding of this edition of HYMNS on OCLC; a rare copy of an important title. 3'' x 1.75''. Original blue pictorial wrappers, saddle-stitched. Three full-page woodcut illustrations. 8 pages.