The Child's library of useful knowledge: containing a variety of entertaining and familiar stories, adapted to the capacities of children; interspersed with the history of birds. Calculated to form the mind and mould the heart to sympathy and love Vol. 1.

ID 15969
Title The Child's library of useful knowledge: containing a variety of entertaining and familiar stories, adapted to the capacities of children; interspersed with the history of birds. Calculated to form the mind and mould the heart to sympathy and love Vol. 1.
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Signed Author Anonymous
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Volumes 1
Pagination 132
Date of Publication 1806
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Imprint From the press of Zadok Cramer -- and sold at his bookstore.
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Location of Printing Pittsburgh, PA US
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Length (cm) 15
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Includes short prose pieces and poems by authors including Amelia Opie and Isaac Watts. "Our principal object is that children be treated and considered as rational beings; capable ... of reflection ..."--Preface, p. vi, dated: Pittsburgh, Dec. 24, 1806.
No more published?
Translation by Carver of a Naudowessie Indian prayer to the Great Spirit, p. 109.
"Children in the wood."--p. 103-107, in verse.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
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American Antiquarian Society copy acquired with funds from the Nancy Burkett Fund, 2006. Lacks p. 67-68 and 105-106; p. 13-14, 27-28, and 81-82 mutilated. Inscribed: Maryann Wallace book; it was bought in the year 1810, price 25 cents ... John Haslon, his [--] Maryann Wallace, her book [--] this [--] August 1822 [--].
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Opie, Amelia, Unknown. The Child's library of useful knowledge: containing a variety of entertaining and familiar stories, adapted to the capacities of children; interspersed with the history of birds. Calculated to form the mind and mould the heart to sympathy and love Vol. 1.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 15969, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/15969. Accessed 2024-11-21. 

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  author={Opie,Amelia and Unknown,},
  year={1806},
  title={The Child's library of useful knowledge: containing a variety of entertaining and familiar stories, adapted to the capacities of children; interspersed with the history of birds. Calculated to form the mind and mould the heart to sympathy and love Vol. 1.},
  publisher={Zadok Cramer},
  address={Pittsburgh, PA},    }

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