Copyright, 1911, by C. E. Goodspeed & Co.

Of this book seven hundred copies were printed in November 1911, by D. B. Updike, at The Merrymount Press, Boston

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.[Introductory][3]
II.[The Play-Book in England][33]
III.[Newbery’s Books in America][59]
IV.[Patriotic Printers and the American Newbery][89]
V.[The Child and his Book at the End of the Eighteenth Century][121]
VI.[Toy-Books in the early Nineteenth Century][147]
VII.[American Writers and English Critics][191]
[Index][233]