Original Moral Tales Intended for Children and Young Persons, Containing The Advantages of a Good Resolution.--The Four Apples.--The Confession.--The Child Who Took What Did Not Belong to Her.--The Botanical Garden.--John Williams. Anna Ross.--Sophia Morton.

ID 16152
Title Original Moral Tales Intended for Children and Young Persons, Containing The Advantages of a Good Resolution.--The Four Apples.--The Confession.--The Child Who Took What Did Not Belong to Her.--The Botanical Garden.--John Williams. Anna Ross.--Sophia Morton.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 215, [1]
Date of Publication 1827
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Imprint Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street.
Colophon Isaac R. Butts & Co. Printers.
Copyright Statement Copyright 1827 by Bowles & Dearborn.
Location of Printing Boston US
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Length (cm) 15
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A collection of eight stories, each with separate title page and identical copyright statement on verso.
"John Williams" is by Dorothea Lynde Dix; "Anna Ross" is by Grace Kennedy; "Sophia Morton" is by Louisa J. Hall.
"The excellence of the abridgement of Anna Ross has induced the publishers to depart ... from their plan of confininig the scenes of all the stories for children to our own country ..."--p. [152].
Copyright 1827 by Bowles & Dearborn.
Wood engravings signed: H [i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?].
Back cover has wood engraving of the book shop of Bowles & Dearborn.
Last page blank. Pages also numbered: [2], 20, 8, 8, 14, 8, 34, 59, [1], 63, [1].
Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829,
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American Antiquarian Society copy has bookplate of A.R. Pope, Cambridge, Mass.
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Dix, Dorothea Lynde, Kennedy, Grace, Hall, Louisa Jane. Original Moral Tales Intended for Children and Young Persons, Containing The Advantages of a Good Resolution.--The Four Apples.--The Confession.--The Child Who Took What Did Not Belong to Her.--The Botanical Garden.--John Williams. Anna Ross.--Sophia Morton.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16152, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16152. Accessed 2024-04-26. 

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