A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. : Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun.

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Title A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. : Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun.
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Signed Author By Jesse Torrey, Jun.
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Pagination vi, 8-142
Date of Publication 1834
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Imprint Published and sold by Grigg & Elliot, no. 9 North Fourth Street.
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Copyright Statement Copyright Mar. 24, 1824 by Jesse Torrey, Jr.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Notes AAS notes: Compiled for the use of children aged six to ten; cf. Preface, p. [iii].
Includes selections from Berquin's Children's friend, Maria Edgeworth's Early lessons, Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton, Aesop's Fables, and Jane and Ann Taylor's Poems for infant minds. Paragraphs numbered.
Cover title. Reissue of the sheets of: A pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun. Twenty-fith edition. Philadelphia: published and sold by John Grigg, no. 9, North Fourth Street, and sold by booksellers and country merchants generally.--Stereotyped by L. Johnson. 1830.
Copyright Mar. 24, 1824 by Jesse Torrey, Jr.
Endorsement by the committee of the Philadelphia Academy of Teachers, verso of title page.
"To teachers and parents. Valuable school books, published by Grigg & Elliot ..."--lower cover.
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American Antiquarian Society copy cover worn. Inscribed: Emmason; Nicholas Price.
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Berquin, Arnaud, Edgeworth, Maria, Day, Thomas, Taylor, Jane. A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. : Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16167, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16167. Accessed 2025-05-31. 

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