Title: Balyabinod [Amusements for children]
Author: Swarnakumari Devi
Publisher: S.C. Auddy & Co Booksellers and Publishers, 58 & 12, Wellington Street, Calcutta.
Date & edition: 1902
Price: 3 annas
About the book: A text for the upper primary classes, Balyabinod followed the pedagogic methods newly introduced by the government. Mainly a book of prose and verse for children, it has a supplementary fifteen page grammar section at the end.
Illustrations: The frontispiece displays a woodcut illustration of Queen Victoria. A small woodcut used as a tailpiece at the end of a poem on page 60.
Note: An advertisement, enlisting all the books written by the author is appended to the text.
Pages: 75
Genre: Vernacular language and grammar text book.
Source: The National Library, Kolkata
Shelfmark.: 182. Md. 883. 3
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