An Abridgment of the History of New-England, for the Use of Young Persons. Now Introduced into the Principal Schools in this Town. By Hannah Adams. Second Edition. Copy Right Secured.

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Title An Abridgment of the History of New-England, for the Use of Young Persons. Now Introduced into the Principal Schools in this Town. By Hannah Adams. Second Edition. Copy Right Secured.
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Signed Author By Hannah Adams.
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Volumes 1
Pagination vi, [1], 6-184, 183-188
Date of Publication 1807
Edition Statement Second Edition.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication
Imprint Published by Belcher & Armstrong, no. 70, State Street. Sold wholesale and retail by them; sold also by Thomas and Whipple, Newburyport, and by the principal book-sellers in town and country.
Colophon Belcher & Armstrong, printers.
Copyright Statement District of Massachusetts, to wit: Be it remembered, that on the 12th day of February, in the thirty-first year of the Independence of the United States of America, Hannah Adams, of the said district, has deposited in this office the title of a book, the right whereof she claims as author, in the words following, to wit: "An Abridgement of the History of New England, for the use of young persons. Now introduced into the principal schools in this town. By Hannah Adams. Second edition." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies, during the times therein mentioned;" and also to an act intitled, "An act supplementary to an act, entitled, An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned; and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching, historical and other prints." William S. Shaw, Clerk of the District of Massachusetts.
Location of Printing Boston US
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Length (cm) 19
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Notes AAS notes:
An abridgment of the author's Summary history of New-England (Boston, 1799).
"For the corrections in the chronology, and some of the additions, the editor is indebted to Dr. Holmes' American annals."--Preface, p. [v].
Caption and running title: History of New-England.
Copyright Feb. 12, 1807 by Hannah Adams.
Paragraphs numbered. The Appendix, p. [180]-[190], includes study questions.
Errors in paging: p. 73 misnumbered 59; page numbers 183, 184 repeated.
Two impressions exist, with identical title and imprint. Gatherings [A] and R are different settings of type. In the present impression, the words "Copy right secured" on the title page are set in upper-case and lower-case, and the pages of gathering R are misnumbered 183-188. In these particulars, this impression resembles the issue printed by Belcher & Armstrong for Etheridge & Bliss and S. Etheridge (Shaw 50752).
Includes bibliographical references.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy A p. 65-66 mutilated; marbling on cover is in curved wave pattern. Inscribed: Ann Chace's book; E.T. Pike. July, 1890.
American Antiquarian Society copy B lacks p. 153-156; marbling on cover is in a ridged pattern. The gift of Patricia Otto, 2010. Inscribed: L. Foster Morse, Roxbury, Mass.; Eliza Jane Foster, Dorchester; W.W. Morse.
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Adams, Hannah. An Abridgment of the History of New-England, for the Use of Young Persons. Now Introduced into the Principal Schools in this Town. By Hannah Adams. Second Edition. Copy Right Secured.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 16277, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/16277. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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