The friendly instructer: or, A companion for young masters and misses. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.

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Title The friendly instructer: or, A companion for young masters and misses. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.
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Signed Author By a lady.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 70
Date of Publication 1814
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Imprint Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill. Who keep for sale a great variety of cheap religious tracts. The charitable, resident in any part of the Union, who purchase for distribution, will find their orders answered promptly, and on the most liberal terms.
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Location of Printing Boston US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 15
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Non-UK Price US$0.12
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"I have perused these dialogues with so much pleasure ... they were written by a lady with whose valuable character I have been acquainted many years; and who has been long employed in the education of children ..."--The recommendatory preface, p. [v], signed: P. Doddridge. Northampton, June 8, 1741.
Tentatively attributed to English religious writer Elizabeth Harrison.
Pages [i] and [72] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
Wood engraving, p. 48, signed: Dearborn [i.e., Nathaniel Dearborn] sc.
"Gabriel sent to the Virgin Mary." "Christ's ascension."--pictures with captions, p. [71].
"Lincoln & Edmands, publish and have for sale at their Theological and Miscellaneous Book Store ... a great variety of interesting books for juvenile minds ... School books and stationary ... and printing well executed ..."--advertisement, back cover.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Princeton University. Early American book illustrators and wood engravers, 1670-1870 (1968 edition),
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American Antiquarian Society copy inscribed: Sophia G. Fearing, a present from her grand father, Jan. 1816.
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Harrison, Elizabeth. The friendly instructer: or, A companion for young masters and misses. In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues. By a lady.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17759, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17759. Accessed 2024-11-22. 

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