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Exhibit ID:700

Rural Scenes; or, A Peep into the Country (Cooperstown, H. & E. Phinney, 1829)

Rural Scenes; or, A Peep into the Country is a short didactic book for children that belongs to the Anglo‑American moralizing tradition associated with the Taylor sisters, Ann and Jane, whose work was frequently reprinted on both sides of the Atlantic in the early nineteenth century (perplexity).

The text first appeared in London around 1818 and was later issued in American stereotype editions by the Cooperstown, New York firm of H. & E. Phinney, who specialized in affordable juvenile and schoolbooks.catalog.freelibrary+3

Henry and Elihu Phinney, successors to the original Cooperstown printer Elihu Phinney, used stereotyping to keep popular titles like Rural Scenes in steady circulation through the 1830s and 1840s, including the 1829 Cooperstown impression you mention. Their press helped diffuse British evangelical children’s literature into the rural upstate New York book market, where such titles were sold through country stores and peddlers as improving, inexpensive reading. Rural Scenes itself presents idealized descriptions of farms, fields, animals, and seasons, using conversations and brief verse to encourage gratitude, obedience, and piety in young readers, reflecting contemporary beliefs that picturesque nature was a primary vehicle for moral and religious instruction.nypl+4

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What Topic

History Fairy Tales

What Type

Book Book - Children's Illustrations

Where

Various - Where

When

C19 Y1829

Who Creator

Ann Taylor Jane Taylor William Darton

Who Collector

Tom Paper

Curators: kate support(@kate_support), tomcurator(@tomcurator).

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