Ralph's book |
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| Title : | Ralph's book |
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| Creator : | Vaux, Frances Bowyer, 1785-1854 | ||
| Source : | The dew-drop; or, the summer morning's walk | ||
| Place Of Creation : | London | ||
| Publisher : | Printed for Darton Harvey and Darton Gracechurch-street | ||
| Date of creation : | 1816 | ||
| Additional Creator : | Lucy Collection | ||
| Format : | Book | ||
| Contributor : | State Library of South Australia | ||
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| Donated by : | Lucy Family |
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| Description : |
The Dew-drop or the summer morning's walk belonged to Ralph Everard Lucy and was given to him in 1821 when he was five or six years old. When he migrated to South Australia in 1854 with his wife Eliza, the book, no doubt one of a number, came with them. It would have been used by their own children, and perhaps a later generation before being donated to the State Library as part of the Lucy Collection. The book in a gentle manner gives lessons in nature study, as Edward and his sister Harriet take their morning walk with their father. When his father rouses him in the morning Edward exclaims 'Oh, no Papa. I must not be a sluggard' (p. 3). Here he alludes to the poem by Isaac Watts:
Watts' Divine and moral songs for children were first published in 1715 and remained popular throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. |
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| Related names : | Lucy, Ralph Everard, 1816-1908 |
| Further reading : | Barr, John. Illustrated children's books, London; Dover, NH: British Library, c1986 Darton, F. J. Harvey. Children's books in England: five centuries of social life, Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982 Muir, Percy H. English children's books, 1600 to 1900, London: Batsford, [1954] Whalley, Joyce Irene. Cobwebs to catch flies: illustrated books for the nursery and schoolroom, 1700-1900, London: Elek, 1974 Watts, Isaac, Divine songs: attempted in easy language for the use of children London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1839 |
| Internet links : | State Library of South Australia: Children's Literature Research Collection. The Lucy Collection Picturing childhood: the evolution of the illustrated children's book Poets' corner: Isaac Watts see: 'Against idleness and mischief' and 'The sluggard' University of Delaware Library: World of the child. Books of instruction |
| Exhibitions and events : | State Library of South Australia: Mortlock Wing exhibitions. To be a child August 2004- |
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