Free Holborn Reading Scale Manual Test Sheets Programs For Weddings

CHILDREN'S BOOKS PUBLISHED BY WILLIAM DARTON AND HIS SONS A Catalogue of an Exhibition at the Lilly Library, Indiana University, April-June 1992 By Linda David With a Historical Calendar by Lawrence Darton This catalogue was published with funds from the Wendell L. Willkie Educational Trust administered by the Indiana University Foundation, with additional funding from APT International, a supplemental grant from the George and Frances Ball Foundation of Muncie, Indiana, and generous gifts from Design Printing of Indianapolis, Indiana, and from two anonymous donors. ISBN: © 1992, Lilly Library, Indiana University Editing and design by the Indiana University Office of Publications. Edited by Sylvia Payne and designed by Garry Roadruck, with production assistance from Diane Castellan. Photographs by Kevin Hutchison, courtesy of Media and Teaching Resources. Typeset by Fine Light Inc, Bloomington, Indiana; the text is set in Palatino.

Based primarily on the student's own reading of recommended print. The final one-hour test requires visual memory to identify buildings visited from. NYU in London uses the following scale of numerical equivalents to letter. Other reading is listed week by week according to topic, and also on essay briefing sheets.

Printed by Design Printing, Indianapolis, Indiana. Paper used is 80 pound Mohawk Superfine Cover (White) and 80 pound Mohawk Superfine Text (White). Seven hundred and fifty copies of this catalogue have been printed.

Cover design by Garry Roadruck based on Death and Burial of Cock Robin. London: William Darton, Holborn Hill [ca. A SURVEY OF IMPRINTS Children's books published by William Darton and his sons, Samuel of Gracechurch Street and William and Thomas of Holborn Hill, are the focus of this exhibition, which concentrates on the period from William Darton's first published book in 1787 to the late 1830s, when his sons Samuel of Gracechurch Street and William of Holborn Hill retired from their respective businesses. The brief tenure of William Darton's grandson Thomas Gates Darton at the Gracechurch Street firm and the several decades of activity of his grandson John Maw Darton of the Holborn Hill business are noted only in passing; the Darton firms in the Victorian era must form another study. During the period examined here, both father and sons were members of the Society of Friends, a religious and cultural group that played a leading role in the cause of abolition, the reform of institutional care of the mentally ill and prison reform, and the movement for universal literacy. The English Friends at the turn of the nineteenth century were a prospering homogeneously middle class culture.

Their traditionally intense concentration on the rearing of children allied them with the aspirations of the larger middle class, as those aspirations expressed themselves in the ideal of the domesticated sentimental family. Works published by William Darton and his sons not only shared in the expression of this ideal, but helped to create it. William Darton's influence on the flourishing children's book trade of the early nineteenth century stretched across generations.

Between 1795 and 1806, three sons were apprenticed to him. Although it is seldom possible to distinguish the work of individual apprentices in looking at Darton imprints of this early period, a viewer should think of a workshop in which the father and a number of apprentices worked together, including at different times William the younger, Thomas, and Samuel Darton; some publications may include work by any or all of them. Engraving work was also sent out; by 1800, the younger members of the Taylor family in Essex, third generation engravers, 'were now so far known to Darton and Harvey as to be frequently employed on small plates for their juvenile works,' Ann Taylor Gilbert writes in her Autobiography. Ann, Jane, and their brother Isaac Taylor have left vivid accounts of their years of engraving alongside their father. The interplay of William Darton and his sons in these apprentice years must have been equally complex, and the complexity would have increased as each son began to make his own way in the book trade. An interplay that may not be recovered in anecdote may perhaps be experienced by viewers of the many dozens of their publications in this exhibition. The Elisabeth Ball Collection provided most of the books in this exhibition, with additions from the Virginia Warren Collection of Old London Street Cries.