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• Courtesy
• Juvenile literature

• Grunty Grunts and Smiley Smile Indoors (Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Co., c1920), by Bertha E. Feist, illust. by M. P. Brater (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Caxton's Book of Curtesye, Printed at Westminster about 1477-8 A.D. and Now Reprinted, with Two Ms. Copies of the Same Treatise, from the Oriel Ms. 79, and the Balliol Ms. 354 (EETS extra series #3; London: Published for the Early English Text Society, c1868), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (Gutenberg text)
• Good Morals and Gentle Manners, by Alexander Murdoch Gow (page images at MOA)
• Queene Elizabethes Achademy (by Sir Humphrey Gilbert); A Booke of Precedence, The Ordering of a Funerall, &c.; Varying Versions of The Good Wife, The Wise Man, &c.; Maxims, Lydgate's Order of Fools, A Poem on Heraldry, Occleve on Lord's Men, &c. (with Essays on Early Italian and German Books of Courtesy; EETS extra series #8; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1869), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall, contrib. by Humphrey Gilbert, William Michael Rossetti, and Eugene Oswald (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Compleat Gentleman: Fashioning Him Absolute in the Most Necessary and Commendable Qualities Concerning Minde or Bodie That May be Required in a Noble Gentleman (London: Printed for F. Constable, 1622), by Henry Peacham (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• Il Cortegiano: or, The Courtier, Written by Conte Baldassar Castiglione, and a New Version of the Same into English; Together With Several of His Celebrated Pieces, As Well Latin as Italian, Both in Prose and Verse; To Which is Prefix'd the Life of the Author (in Italian and English side by side; London: Printed by W. Bowyer, 1727), by Baldassarre Castiglione (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The English Gentleman: Containing Sundry Excellent Rules or Exquisite Observations, Tending to Direction of Every Gentleman, of Selecter Ranke and Qualitie; How to Demeane or Accommodate Himselfe in the Manage of Publike or Private Affaires (London: Printed by J. Haviland, 1630), by Richard Brathwaite, illust. by Robert Vaughan (HTML at EEBO TCP)
• The Book of the Courtier, by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Walter Raleigh, trans. by Thomas Hoby (HTML at Renascence Editions)
• Il Cortegiano del Conte Baldesar Castiglione (second edition, in Italian; Florence: G. C. Sansoni, 1910), by Baldassarre Castiglione, ed. by Vittorio Cian (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Be Polite to All (London: Dean and Son, ca. 1857) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• La Civilité (Puérile et Honnête) Expliquée par l'Oncle Eugène (in French; Paris: E. Plon, Nourrit and Co., ca. 1887), by Eugène Plon, illust. by Louis Maurice Boutet de Monvel
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at childrensbooksonline.org

• Barty Crusoe and His Man Saturday (New York: Moffat, Yard and Co., 1909), by Frances Hodgson Burnett (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Little Laura, the Kentucky Abolitionist: An Address to the Young Friends of the Slave (Newcastle: Printed by T. Pigg and Co., 1859) (page images at Cornell)

• Away We Go (The Road to Safety book A; New York et al.: American Book Co., c1938), by Horace Mann Buckley, Margaret L. White, Alice B. Adams, and Leslie R. Silvernale, illust. by Ottilie Foy (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

• The Iliad for Boys and Girls, Told From Homer in Simple Language (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1929), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Homer (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Adventures of Odysseus and the Tale of Troy, by Padraic Colum, illust. by Willy Pogány
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • illustrated HTML at Bartleby
  • illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com

• Jack Wright and His Electric Air Rocket: or, The Boy Exile of Siberia (Boys' star library #341 by "Noname"; c1893), by Luis Senarens (page images at HathiTrust)
• Voyages and Travels of Count Funnibos and Baron Stilkin, by William Henry Giles Kingston (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Heroine of the White Nile, or, What a Woman Did and Dared: A Sketch of the Remarkable Travels and Experiences of Miss Alexandrine Tinné (New York: Phillips and Hunt; Cincinnati: Walden and Stowe, 1881), by William Wells (page images at ohiomemory.org)
• The Story of David Livingstone, by Vautier Golding (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• The Aeneid for Boys and Girls, Told From Virgil in Simple Language (New York: Macmillan, 1942), by Alfred John Church, contrib. by Virgil (HTML at Gateway to the Classics)

• Two Tales (Bloomington, IN: Text Materials Program, Indiana University, 1963), by Mohammed Yassin Nassimi (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Upward Path: A Reader for Colored Children (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, c1920), ed. by Myron T. Pritchard and Mary White Ovington, contrib. by Robert Russa Moton
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ole Mammy's Torment (Boston: L. C. Page and Company, 1910 (c1897)), by Annie F. Johnston, illust. by Mary G. Johnston and Amy M. Sacker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Ebony Jr! (1973-1985) (partial serial archives)
• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Red, Yellow and Black: Tales of Indians, Chinese and Africans (New York and Cincinnati: Methodist Book Concern, c1918), by Sophia Lyon Fahs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz (New York: Random House, 1939), by Mabel Louise Robinson, illust. by Lynd Ward (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Farming for Boys: What They Have Done, and What Others May Do, in the Cultivation of Farm and Garden; How to Begin, How to Proceed, and What to Aim At (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868), by Edmund Morris
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• History of King Alfred of England (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1872), by Jacob Abbott (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• King Alfred of England (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1849), by Jacob Abbott (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• An Alphabet Allegorical, Alliterative and Amusing, Appreciable at All Ages (London: Effingham Wilson, 1871), by L. J Hill (page images at Princeton)
• A Bizarre Company (London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1913), by G. M. C. Fry (page images at Princeton)

• Scenes in America, for the Amusement and Instruction of Little Tarry-at-Home Travellers, by Isaac Taylor (page images at MOA)
• Book About America (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1850), by Rufus Merrill (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Every Boy's Book of Sport and Pastime (London et al.: G. Routledge and Sons, 1897), by Professor Hoffmann (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Girl's Own Book (18th edition, entirely re-edited; London: W. Tegg and Co., 1858), by Lydia Maria Child, ed. by Clara de Chatelain
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Variety: or, Selections and Essays, Consisting of Anecdotes, Curious Facts, Interesting Narratives, with Occasional Reflections (Philadelphia: Published by James P. Parke, 1809), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)
• Beauties of Sentiment: Or an Original Collection of Moral Anecdotes, for the Young (Boston: J. Punchard, 1831) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)
• Juvenile Anecdotes, Founded on Facts, Collected for the Amusement of Children (7th edition; London: Harvey and Darton, 1825), by Priscilla Wakefield (page images at Google)

• Secrets of the Woods, by William J. Long (Gutenberg text)
• Secrets of the Woods (Boston and London: Ginn and Company, 1902), by William J. Long (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
• The Burgess Animal Book for Children, by Thornton W. Burgess (Gutenberg text and audio reading)

• The Rambles of a Butterfly (London: Darton, 1819), by Mary Elliott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of the Robins (London: Griffith and Farran, 1869), by Sarah Trimmer, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at Google)

• Among the Farmyard People (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1899), by Clara Dillingham Pierson, illust. by F. C. Gordon
  • illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
• Book About Animals (Concord, NH: R. Merrill, 1850) (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• A History of Animals, For the Use of Children (16-page edition with goat on title page; Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill and Co., 1843) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• A History of Animals, For the Use of Children (8-page edition with lion on title page; Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill and Co., 1843) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A History of Beasts, For the Use of Children (8-page edition with elephant title page; Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill and Co., 1843) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Our Jungle Friends (Akron et al.: Saalfield Pub. Co., c1905) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Pet Lamb Picture Book: Containing The Pet Lamb; The Toy Primer; Jack the Giant Killer; The Fair One With the Golden Locks (London and New York: G. Routledge and Sons, 1873) (page images at Florida)
• An Alphabet of Animals (London: Simpkin, Marshall, and Co.; Leicester, UK: Winks and Son, 1865) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Natural History: or, Uncle Philip's Conversations With the Children About Tools and Trades Among Inferior Animals (New York: Harper and Bros., 1835), by Francis L. Hawks (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Out-Door World: or, Young Collector's Handbook (London and New York: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893), by William S. Furneaux
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at Florida
• A Pleasing Toy for Children (Concord, NH: Rufus Merrill, 1843)
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• A Short History of Birds and Beasts, for the Amusement and Instruction Of Children: Adorned with Cuts (ca. 1830), illust. by John Lee (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Visit to the Tower : Being an Account of Several Birds, and Beasts (York: Printed by J. Kendrew, 1810) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Cat and Dog, or, Memoirs of Puss and the Captain: A Story Founded on Fact (London: Grant and Griffith, 1854), by Julia Charlotte Maitland, illust. by Harrison Weir (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Childs First Book (New York: McLoughlin Bros., ca. 1875) (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)

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