Tom Anderson, Dare-Devil: A Young Virginian in the Revolution — page 2: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# What's on This Page This is a **library ownership and restriction label**, not a penny dreadful page itself. It's a printed insert pasted into a book, indicating the volume belongs to the Reference Library of the Houghton Mifflin Company (a Boston publisher) located at 2 Park Street. The label warns that the book cannot be removed from the shelves without the librarian's permission—a common practice for valuable reference materials in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The decorative emblem at center appears to be the publisher's mark. This label tells us the penny dreadful was preserved in an institutional library collection.