A family tour through the British Empire; containing some accounts of its natural and artificial curiosities, history and antiquities, interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of youth. By Priscilla Wakefield.

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Title A family tour through the British Empire; containing some accounts of its natural and artificial curiosities, history and antiquities, interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of youth. By Priscilla Wakefield.
Contributors
Signed Author By Priscilla Wakefield.
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Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination iv, 354
Date of Publication 1804
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Date of First Publication 1804
Imprint Published and sold by Jacob Johnson & Co. Sold also by C. Peirce, and W. & D. Treadwell, Portsmouth; W.P. & L. Blake, Boston; Beers & How, New-Haven; Whiting, Backus & W. Albany; O. Penniman & Co. Troy; Thomas & Whipple, Newbury-Port; George Hill, and Warner & Hanna, Baltimore; R. & J. Grey, Alexandria, and S. Pleasants, and W. Prichard, Richmond.
Colophon A. Bartram, Printer.
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm) 17
Width (cm)
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  • BL 10349.b.19.
Notes AAS Notes:
"The favourable reception of the Juvenile travellers has given encouragement to the present undertaking, with a design to convey a general idea, to the minds of children, of the variety of surface, produce, manufactures, and principle places of the British Empire ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
Parentheses substituted for square brackets in imprint transcription.
"A map of the British Empire engraved for Priscilla Wakefield's Family tour."--frontispiece.
"Notes on the Family tour."--p. [355-360.].
"Itinerary."--p. [361-368].
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821,
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American Antiquarian Society copy map hand-colored, probably under the direction of the publisher. The gift of the family of d'Alté A. Welch. Gathering 2B (p. 277-288) misbound before gathering 2A (p. 265-276). Inscribed: A. Watkyns, Troy, N. York; Ira Mortimer Wells.
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Wakefield, Priscilla. A family tour through the British Empire; containing some accounts of its natural and artificial curiosities, history and antiquities, interspersed with biographical anecdotes. Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of youth. By Priscilla Wakefield.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20335, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20335. Accessed 2024-12-22. 

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