The amaranth: being a collection of original pieces, in prose and verse, : calculated to amuse the minds of youth without corrupting their morals. By Eliza S. True.

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Title The amaranth: being a collection of original pieces, in prose and verse, : calculated to amuse the minds of youth without corrupting their morals. By Eliza S. True.
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Signed Author By Eliza S. True.
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Volumes 1
Pagination 108
Date of Publication 1811
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Imprint J. M'Kown, printer.
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Location of Printing Portland US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 19
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Notes AAS Notes:
"Let it suffice to remark, that most of the pieces in this volume were written at an early period of life ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Noyes, R.W. Bibliography of Maine imprints to 1820,
Skillin, G.B. Bibliography of Maine imprints 1785-1820,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
Virtue its own reward -- Fanny Melmoth -- Domestic manufacture -- A fragment -- The little cottager -- Matrimonial squabbles -- The Crayton family -- Melville -- Maxims -- Foreign fashions -- The village dance -- Maxims -- Maria [in verse] -- On being presented with a nosegay by a child on the first day of April [in verse] -- Acrostic [in verse] -- The contrast [in verse] -- To Mr. [--] [in verse].
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American Antiquarian Society copy bound in wrapper that is a printed remnant from an advertisement for History of the world, collected and arranged by Evert Duyckinck. Pages 107-108 mutilated.
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True, Eliza S.. The amaranth: being a collection of original pieces, in prose and verse, : calculated to amuse the minds of youth without corrupting their morals. By Eliza S. True.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20271, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20271. Accessed 2025-10-26. 

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