1854-1856 THE CHILD'S PAPER. 36 Issue Run of Important Tract Society Publication for Juveniles. Superb Content.

[American Tract Society, Juvenalia]. The Child's Paper. Volumes 3-5, January, 1854 through December, 1856, Complete. New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Cincinnati, and New Orleans. American Tract Society. 1854-1856. 144pp.

Volume 3. Knud Iverson - The Martyr-Child; The Birth of Georgia; The First Sabbath of the Pilgrims [1620]; Sabbath-Keeping Mackerel-Catchers; Leang Afa and the Great Stir in China; A Log-Cabin Sabbath School; The Nestorian Christians; A Chinese Nursery Song; The Falls of Niagara [with Engraving]; The Perils of the Sea; The Street Beggar [homeless children]; Nebraska; Declaration of Independence [with fine engraving]; The Great Fraud [traveling dentist]; guns deaths from bird-hunting [105 deaths and 32 wounded]; The Largest Diamond; Whale-Fishing [with engraving; whaling, making whale oil, etc.]; A Talk about Leeches; The News-Boy [engraving]; Japan Opening Her Doors; Dog Laws; The Bowl of Gruel, or Knowing How; The Runaway; What the Bible has Done; Jug Worship [Drunkenness, Temperance, engraving of a drunk in the streets]; etc.

Voulme 4. Leang Afa of China; The Boy and the Skates; Christopher Columbus; The Sleigh Ride; The Sinking of the Atlantic steamer, Arctic [with engraving]; The Astor Library [with engraving]; The Old Negro's Logic; The Dead Baby; Care for Babies in Public Nurseries; Rules for Sleeping Well; The Protest at the Diet of Spires [with engraving]; Bunker Hill Monument; Four Ways of Spending the Fourth of July - Which is Best?; The Far Off Irish Boys; The Haystack Prayer Meetings and Rise of American Foreign Missions [Haystack Prayer Revival]; A Boston Farm-School; A Sabbath School Scholar in Prison; The New Home [Engraving of Family Hewing Logs for a Cabin]; The Step-Moether; Codfishing [superb engraving]; The Landing of the Pilgrims [with engraving]; etc.

Volume 5. Travelers Attacked by Wolves;  The War; The Preachers to the Heathen [with engraving]; The War-Spirit [Sebastopol]; A Noble Martyr; Chincapin Hunting; Kanoa [Hawaii; Sandwich Islands]; Bullets or Bibles; The Missionary's Horse; The Brickmaker's Family; A Sabbath School in California; Discovery of the Art of Printing; The New York Juvenile Asylum; An Indian Letter [from an Indian convert, with engraving]; The Martyrs of Madagasca [with engraving]; Many Uses of the Cocoa-Nut [Coconut]; Playing Pranks; Dogs of St. Bernard on the Alps; Howling Dervishes [whirling dervishes, with engraving]; At the Prayer Meeting; The Child's Paper [excellent engraving of printing press]; The Kennebec Indian; Fire! Fire! Fire! [with engraving by Currier]; The Pesky Keg; etc. 

A good+ copy, bound in half leather, generally solid, with pages that have light foxing, and are a bit handled. Some period juvenilia on the ffep and rfep.  A few instances of a hand-coloring.