An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure Hours, &c. The sixth edition.

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Title An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure Hours, &c. The sixth edition.
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Signed Author By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure Hours, &c.
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Pagination xii, 179
Date of Publication 1811
Edition Statement The sixth edition.
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Date of First Publication 1796
Imprint Published by Kimber & Conrad, no. 93, Market Street. William Brown, printer, Church-alley.
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Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Notes AAS catalog record links to 1811 J. Belcher and J. W. Burditt and Co. edition in Google Books.
AAS Notes: In the form of a series of letters between sisters.
"The design of the following Introduction to botany, is to cultivate a taste in young persons for the study of nature, which is the most familiar means of introducing suitable ideas of the attributes of the Divine Being, by exemplifying them in the order and harmony of the visible creation. ..."--Preface, p. [iii].
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Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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American Antiquarian Society copy the gift of Henry Bowen Dewey, 1986. Inscribed: Frances A. Henshaw's book, Aug. 6, 1812; Francis Henshaw Dewey 1887.
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Wakefield, Priscilla. An introduction to botany, in a series of familiar letters, with illustrative engravings. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Leisure Hours, &c. The sixth edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20337, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20337. Accessed 2024-11-02. 

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