Comments on: Real Life For Children, 1819 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/04/real-life-for-children-1819-x/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:02:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Helen Billing https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/04/real-life-for-children-1819-x/#comment-1474122 Fri, 05 Aug 2022 02:02:33 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192744#comment-1474122 Dear Gentle Author
I have been a regular reader of your blog for years and appreciate your excellent writing style.

I was particularly interested in this blog: “Real Life for Children” because the publisher is Robert Harrild. R. Harrild was in partnership with my husband’s third great grandfather, Edward Billing, in 1801 and for a few years after that. Robert married Edward’s sister, Elizabeth, in 1801.

Robert Harrild did better in his printing business than my husband’s ancestor. Trade directories indicate that he was a letter-press printer, a publisher and a bookseller. According to advertisements in the early 1900s, Mr. Harrild developed and manufactured the first composition rollers for printing in 1809. His daughter, Mary, married George Baxter who developed the Baxter colour printing process.

We have uncut printer’s pages of “Riddle Book” and “The House that Jack Built” probably printed about the same time as “Real Life for Children”. The pictures are also from woodcuts.

I would love to join your walking tours but I do not live in England.

Thank you for bringing this book to my attention.

]]> By: Caroline Murray https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/08/04/real-life-for-children-1819-x/#comment-1474075 Thu, 04 Aug 2022 18:17:25 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192744#comment-1474075 I love the gardener especially. You might like this about Robert Harrild, especially the comments by some of his descendants: https://professorhedgehogsjournal.uk/2017/09/11/robert-harrild-and-sons/

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