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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Volumes 1
Pagination vi, 8-142, [2]
Date of Publication 1835
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Imprint Published and sold by John Grigg, no. 9, North Fourth Street, and sold by booksellers and country merchants generally. Stereotyped by L. Johnson
Colophon Stereotyped by L. Johnson.
Copyright Statement Copyright 1824 by Jesse Torrey, Jr.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Length (cm) 19
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Notes Imprint reads 1835, AAS notes "i.e., 1836"
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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 imprint varies: Philadelphia: published and sold by Grigg & Elliot, no. 9, North Fourth Street. 1836.
Copyright 1824 by Jesse Torrey, Jr.
Includes recommendations, [2] p. at end, and publisher's advertisement, lower cover. Among the recommendations is one by Thomas Jefferson.
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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 16168, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16168. Accessed 2025-05-12. 

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