Moral Tales for Young People. By Maria Edgeworth, Author of The Parent's Assistant, Tales of Fashionable Life, &c. In Three Volumes.

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Title Moral Tales for Young People. By Maria Edgeworth, Author of The Parent's Assistant, Tales of Fashionable Life, &c. In Three Volumes.
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Signed Author By Maria Edgeworth, Author of The Parent's Assistant, Tales of Fashionable Life, &c.
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Volumes 3
Pagination I [4], viii, [1], 10-222; II [4], 206; III 231
Date of Publication 1819
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Date of First Publication 1801
Imprint Published by W.B. Gilley, 96 Broadway.
Colophon J.C. Totten, printer
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Location of Printing New York US
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Length (cm) 15
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Notes AAS notes: Each volume has an added illustrated title page: Moral tales; by Maria Edgeworth. In three volumes. Vol. I[-III]. New-York: Published by W.B. Gilley, no. 92 Broadway. 1818.
Imprint of v. 2-3 varies: Gilley's address is given as 92 Broadway (in some copies only? Copies of v. 2 and v. 3 published by Gilley at 96 Broadway have not been located.).
Preface, p. [iii]-viii, signed: R.L. Edgeworth [the author's father, Richard Lovell Edgeworth].
Wood-engraved frontispiece, v. 1, signed: Anderson [i.e., Alexander Anderson].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Pomeroy, J.R. Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870,
v.1. Forester. The Prussian vase -- v.2. The good aunt. Angelina, or, L'Amie inconnue -- v.3. The good French governess. Mademoiselle Panache (second part). The knapsack.
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American Antiquarian Society has lacks v. 2. Vol. 1 inscribed: Louis H[--]. Vol. 3 lacks frontispiece. The gift of Nathaniel Wheeler. Inscribed: S.B. Cheever.
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Edgeworth, Maria. Moral Tales for Young People. By Maria Edgeworth, Author of The Parent's Assistant, Tales of Fashionable Life, &c. In Three Volumes.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17287, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17287. Accessed 2025-10-29. 

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  title={Moral Tales for Young People. By Maria Edgeworth, Author of The Parent's Assistant, Tales of Fashionable Life, &c. In Three Volumes.},
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