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ID	20344
Title	Mental improvement: or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Leisure hours. Fourth American, from the fifth London edition.
Contributors	Wakefield, Priscilla (Author)
Signed Author	By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Leisure hours.
Pseudonym
Firms	Benjamin Johnson [31 Market Street] (Publisher) Griggs & Co. (Printer)
Self-published	No
Volumes	1
Pagination	240
Date of Publication	1819
Edition Statement	Fourth American, from the fifth London edition.
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Date of First Publication
Imprint	Published by Benjamin Johnson, no. 31, Market Street. 1819. Griggs & Co. printers.
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing	Philadelphia US

Format	Duodecimo (12mo)
Length (cm)	20
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Genre	Education
Sources	American Antiquarian Society: 311983 America's Historical Imprints II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819: 50010 Google Books: https://www.google.ca/books/edition/Mental_Improvement_Or_The_Beauties_and_W/u8ZCAQAAMAAJ
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Notes	AAS Notes: In the form of dialogues between parents and their children. "Note, (not inserted in the English edition.)"--p. 240. Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821, Upgraded American Antiquarian Society copy rebound in a half-cloth binding.
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Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental improvement: or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Leisure hours. Fourth American, from the fifth London edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 20344, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/20344. Accessed 2024-12-22.

Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental improvement: or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Leisure hours. Fourth American, from the fifth London edition. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [31 Market Street], 1819.

Wakefield , P. (1819). Mental improvement: or, the beauties and wonders of nature and art. in a series of instructive conversations. by priscilla wakefield, author of leisure hours. fourth american, from the fifth london edition. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [31 Market Street]

Wakefield, Priscilla. Mental improvement: or, The beauties and wonders of nature and art. In a series of instructive conversations. By Priscilla Wakefield, author of Leisure hours. Fourth American, from the fifth London edition. Philadelphia: Benjamin Johnson [31 Market Street], 1819.

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