The republic of childhood
The republic of childhood is a kindergarten methods manual by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin in 1895 for teachers of young children. The single picture is a Riverside Press printer's device: a seated figure beneath a tree and rising sun, framed by a scroll with the words 'bien ou rien' and the press name, a compact emblem a designer could adapt for a colophon or bookplate.
