Goody Two-Shoes. Illuminated with ten pictures (New York, H.W. Hewet) Complete – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Step back in time with Goody Two-Shoes. Illuminated with ten pictures (New York, H.W. Hewet) Complete, an antique engraving rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Goody Two-Shoes. Illuminated with ten pictures (New York, H.W. Hewet) Complete
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This engraving is a New York edition of *Goody Two-Shoes*, a story first published in London in the 1760s and among the earliest books written specifically for children. Its tale of a poor orphan girl who learns to read and rises through hard work and virtue made the book enormously popular, and American publishers reprinted it for decades. The caption card gives no date, so the print's exact year is uncertain. Its ten illustrations, published together, show how this sentimental moral tale was packaged for young readers.
| Medium | 1 print : engraving. |
|---|---|
| Notes | [no date recorded on caption card] |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,724 × 1,200 px · prints to 6 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-125961 |
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