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. Very suitable for Sunday Schools.

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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. Very suitable for Sunday Schools.
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Signed Author By a lady.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 70
Date of Publication 1818
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Imprint Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill, agents for the New England Tract Society. The charitable, resident in any part of the Union, who purchase books for distribution, will find their orders answered promptly, 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.
Wood engraving, p. 48, signed: Dearborn [i.e., Nathaniel Dearborn] sc.
Pages [1] and [72] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
"Gabriel sent to the Virgin Mary." "Christ's ascension."--pictures with captions, p. [71].
"Bible warehouse, and theological & miscellaneous bookstore."--advertisement, back cover. Advertisement features a wood engraving of the Lincoln Edmands Bookstore store front.
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: Martha Smith book, East Sudbury; Clarissa P. Stone, a mother gift; Presented to Clarissa P. Stone by her mother.
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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. Very suitable for Sunday Schools.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 17760, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/17760. Accessed 2024-11-05. 

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