Original poems, for infant minds. By several young persons. In two volumes. Ornamented with twenty elegant wood cuts.

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Title Original poems, for infant minds. By several young persons. In two volumes. Ornamented with twenty elegant wood cuts.
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Signed Author By several young persons.
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Volumes 2
Pagination I 115; II 127
Date of Publication 1816
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Imprint Published by Solomon W. Conrad, no. 87, Market-Street. W. Brown, printer, 23 Church Alley.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be It Remembered, That on the twenty-third day of March, in the thirty-third year of the independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1809, Kimber & Conrad, of the said District, have deposited in this Office the title of a Book, the right whereof they claim as proprietors in the words following, to wit: "Original Poems, for Infant Minds. By several Young "Persons. In two volumes. Ornamented with twen-"ty elegant wood cuts. "In books, or work, or healthful play, "Let my first years be past; "That I may give for ev'ry day "Some good account at last."—Watts. In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, 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 also to the act, entitled, "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 time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 15
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Notes AAS Notes:
Chiefly by Jane and Ann Taylor; also includes poems by Rev. Isaac Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jr., Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Bernard Barton. For attribution to individual poems, see Christina Duff Stewart, The Taylors of Ongar (1975), v. 1, p. 3, etc.
Vol. 1: iv, [1], 6-115, [5] p.; v. 2: 127, [5] p. Last page of v. 1 and v. 2 blank.
Includes wood engravings by Alexander Anderson; cf. Pomeroy.
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books,
Stewart, C.D. Taylors of Ongar,
Pomeroy, J.R. Alexander Anderson, 1775-1870,
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American Antiquarian Society copy is part of the Helen & Benjamin Tighe Collection of American Children's Books. The collection is the gift to AAS of Elisabeth Ball, 1969. Inscribed: D.F. Blackburn.
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Taylor (later Gilbert), Ann, Taylor, Jr., Isaac, O'Keeffe, Adelaide, Barton, Bernard, Taylor, Jane. Original poems, for infant minds. By several young persons. In two volumes. Ornamented with twenty elegant wood cuts.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20173, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20173. Accessed 2024-04-27.

Taylor (later Gilbert), Ann, Isaac Taylor, Jr., Adelaide O'Keeffe, Bernard Barton, and Jane Taylor. Original poems, for infant minds. By several young persons. In two volumes. Ornamented with twenty elegant wood cuts. Philadelphia: Solomon White Conrad, 1816. 

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