From primer to pleasure
by Mary F. Thwaite
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Covers "children's books in England from the invention of printing to 1914, with an outline of some developments in other countries," European and Anglophone.Tags
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- Canonical title
- From primer to pleasure
- Original title
- From primer to pleasure : an introduction to the history of children's books in England, from the invention of printing to 1900 ; with a chapter on some developments abroad
- Alternate titles
- From primer to pleasure in reading : an introduction to the history of children's books in England, from the invention of printing to 1914 ; with an outline of some developments in other countries (1972) (1972)
- Original publication date
- 1963
- Important places
- England, UK
- Epigraph
- [None]
- Dedication
- [None]
- First words
- Over thirty years ago a young library assistant was put in charge of a modern children's library in the industrial north, with little idea of what lay behind the range and variety of the many children's books invitingly set o... (show all)ut in bright covers on the shelves, or how the classics and popular favourites had come into being.
Introduction.
The sources of present-day books for young people go back far beyond the middle of the fifteenth century, when the invention of printing with movable type began to transform the dissemination of knowledge and ideas, and so he... (show all)lp to shape the modern world.
One. Sources. - Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And so their true literary inheritance will never be found within any one nation or period. It spans nothing less than this great globe itself since books began.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 820.9 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures History, description, critical appraisal of works in more than one form
- LCC
- PN1009 .A1 .T5 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Literary history Juvenile literature
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