The document provides an overview of different types of children's literature from the 18th-19th centuries, including gift books from religious societies, didactic books teaching lessons, gender-specific books for girls and boys, illustrated books and picture books, and fairy tale books. It lists specific examples of books from each category, noting their authors, titles, publishers, and dates of publication in London.

2. Selecting the subject
• Book provenance
• Small scale books
• Illustrations in
children’s literature
• The development of
children’s literature

3. Gift books
Religious Tract Society. The gift book
for the young. London: Religious Tract
Society, [1846]
Sunday School Union. The child’s own
magazine. London: J. and W. Rider,
[1878]

4. Didactic books
Sherwood, Mrs. The history of the
Fairchild family: or the child’s manual.
London: Ward, Lock and Co., [18--]
N/A. Accidents of childhood; or
cautionary stories for needless
children. London: George Routledge
and Sons, [18--]

5. Gender-specific books
Girls:
Child, Mrs. The girl’s own book.
London: William Tegg & Co., 1853
Mackarness, Henry S. The young lady’s
book: a manual of amusements,
exercises, studies and pursuits.
London: George Routledge and sons.,
1888
Alcott, Louisa M. Little women and
good wives. London: S. W. Partridge &
Co., 1903
Boys:
Farrar, F. W. Eric, or little by little.
London: Collins Clear Type Press, [19--]
Jerome, Jerome K. Three men in a
boat: (to say nothing of the dog).
London: J.W. Arrowsmith, 1889

6. Illustrated and picture books
Charlesworth, Maria Louisa.
Ministering children: a tale dedicated
to childhood. London: Seeley Jackson
& Halliday., 1875
Caldecott, Randolph. R. Caldecott’s
picture book: containing “The house
that Jack built”, “Sing a song for a
sixpence”, “The queen of hearts”.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., [1907]
Potter, Beatrix. Roly-Poly pudding.
London: Frederick Warne & Co., 1908
Kingsley, Charles. The heroes or Greek
fairy tales: for my children. London: R.
E. King., 1900

7. Fairy-tale and fantasy books
Lang, Andrew. The orange fairy book.
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.,
1906
Grierson, Elizabeth W. The Scottish
fairy book. London: T. Fisher Unwin,
1911

8. On the day

9. What’s next?