With alphabetical indexes of firms and trade specialties.

"There is no exciting or eventful story in the following pages, but only a few simple chapters in the life of Hubert Lee, designed to show that every child has a mission of love, of kind deeds to perform in this world, and that the sphere of this mission lies in the common, every-day occurrences of life. The author trusts it will be read with interest"--Introduction, p. [3], signed: S.R. "No books are published by the American Sunday-School Union without the sanction of the Committee of Publication, consisting of fourteen members, from the following denominations ... Baptist, Methodist, Congregationalist, Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Reformed Dutch."--title page verso. Copyright 1849 by the American Sunday-School Union. The American Sunday-School Union was located at 146 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, between 1827 and 1853; at 147 Nassau St., New York, between 1846 and 1856; at 9 Cornhill, Boston, between 1848 and 1859; and at 103 Fourth St., Louisville, between 1846 and 1858. According to resources available at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Hubert Lee was listed in ASSU catalogs from January 1850 through at least 1893. Copy in hand bears an inscription dated 1850. In marbled boards with leather spine. Plates lithographed. "Lith. of P.S. Duval, Philad."--foot of second plate, opposite p. 30. Also includes wood engravings. Wood engraving, p. 16, signed "GG" (i.e., George Gilbert). "Hubert Lee; or, How a child may do good ... 14 cts.; muslin, 16 cts. No. 1268."--Catalogue of books and other publications of the American Sunday-School Union (1850), p. [62]."

American national trade bibliography.