The Frog Who Would a Wooing Go (p. 1)
Dublin Core
Title
The Frog Who Would a Wooing Go (p. 1)
Subject
Children's songs -- Texts Folk songs, English -- Texts Animals -- Juvenile poetry Courtship -- Juvenile poetry
Description
Wrapper and textual wood engravings printed in color.
Series: Fairy Moonbeam's series. In verse, without the music. This copy is in publisher's printed pictorial orange wrappers, upper wrapper illustration and text printed in black and red within a double rule border.
This is a poem about a young frog who disobeyed his mother and went with his friend Mr. Rat to court Mrs. (sic) Mousie. They make merry for a while, but then the rat and mouse are eaten by cats, and, as he flees, the frog is eaten by a duck.
The illustration on the first page shows the frog waving goodbye to his mother as he sets out to disobey her wishes. This is the same image shown on the front cover.
Series: Fairy Moonbeam's series. In verse, without the music. This copy is in publisher's printed pictorial orange wrappers, upper wrapper illustration and text printed in black and red within a double rule border.
This is a poem about a young frog who disobeyed his mother and went with his friend Mr. Rat to court Mrs. (sic) Mousie. They make merry for a while, but then the rat and mouse are eaten by cats, and, as he flees, the frog is eaten by a duck.
The illustration on the first page shows the frog waving goodbye to his mother as he sets out to disobey her wishes. This is the same image shown on the front cover.
8 unnumbered pages : color illustrations , 16 cm.
Source
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Publisher
McLoughlin Bros.
Unites States--New York--New York
Date
between 1863 and 1869
Contributor
Rose Frazier
Rights
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Format
Scanned from original book at 200-400 dpi in JPEG format using a PlusTek OpticPro A320, resized and enhanced using Adobe Photoshop, and imported as JPEG2000 using Contentdm's software JPEG2000 Extension. 2017.
Language
English
Type
Relief prints, Chromoxylographs,
Chapbook, image, text,
Stillimage, text
Identifier
Children's Historical Literature Collection PR2199 F764 1860z
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