Catalogue of the Hockliffe collection of early children"sbooks

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Catalogue of the Hockliffe collection of early children's books. [Frederick Hockliffe; Doreen H Boggis; Bedford College of Education.

Library.]. The University of Bedfordshire has a unique collection of eighteenth and nineteenth century children's literature. The Hockliffe Collection contains in excess of a thousand children's books which date from between and the early twentieth century.

Most of the books in the collection were published between and The Hockliffe Collection is a unique cache of over a thousand British children's books dating predominantly from the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

They were originally collected by Frederic Hockliffe (), a Bedford publisher and bookseller. The Hockliffe Collection contains in excess of a thousand children's books which date from between and the early twentieth century. Most of the books in the collection were published between anda period which is generally considered to encompass the birth, infancy and growth to maturity of children's literature in English.

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For proof, note how the last couple of books foreshadow WWI. Notes: The AHRB award to catalogue and digitise the Hockliffe Collection of early children's books was won by Professor Nigel Wood in I was recruited as Research Fellow to undertake the task.

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