"The Juvenile Budget Reopened: Being Further Selections From the Writings of Doctor John Aikin" [and Anna Laetitia Barbauld]. With Copious Notes. Published by Harper and Brothers, New York, 1847, copyright 1840 by Marsh, Capen and Webb, [Boston] Massachusetts. 1st Harper edition.

Hard boards, original blind decorated cloth; gold lettering on spine [spine ends and cloth wear]; pencil inscription on front endpaper and antique book seller stamp on fep & bep; 4" x 6.1/2"; 250 pages + one page publisher's ad dated Sept.1846, some soiling, very good condition.

A collection of short stories for children by John Aikin and his sister, Anna Laetitia Barbauld. First published 1796, this is considered an early example of children's literature. Aikin was a doctor, but later devoted himself to writing. Barbauld was a prominent poet and children's author, known for being amongst the first writers to consider children as an audience.

"This Volume consists of selections from his contributions to ' Evenings at Home,'his. Letters from a Father to his Son,' and his miscellaneous pieces. A former Volume of the Juvenile Series of The School LIBRARY,' for which this was also prepared, was, as its compiler tells us, selected from the pages of the first named of these works ; and, that it might not be mistaken for that, which also contains some pieces by Mrs. Barbauld, it was called by the second name, which Doctor Aikin gave the original ; that is, The Juvenile Budget Opened.' Considering the attractive character of Dr. Aikin's writings for the young, and that many interesting and instructive pieces remained on hand, the Publishers were induced to open the book, anew, and again cull from its contents. As this Volume was, in great part, the result of the reopening, it was thought no more appropriate or expressive name could be given it, than that, of · The Juvenile Budget Reopened.'

Historical, biographical, and explanatory, notes have been inserted, wherever it was supposed they might add to the interest or value of the subject treated of; and, with the help of these, we believe there is nothing in the Volume, which our young readers cannot easily understand. T. H. W. Boston May, 1840." [from the "Preface"]

John Aikin (1747-1822) was an English medical doctor and surgeon. Later in life he devoted himself wholly to biography and writing in periodicals. When Richard Phillips founded The Monthly Magazine in 1796, Aikin was its first editor. In conjunction with his sister, Anna Laetitia Barbauld, he published a popular series of volumes entitled Evenings at Home (6 vols, 1792-1795), for elementary family reading, which were translated into almost every European language.

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