Tales uniting instruction with amusement: consisting of The children who were fond of climbing; Matty in the flower-garden; The boys who tore their clothes and The girl who was kind to the poor. Ornamented with copper-plate engravings.

ID 21064
Title Tales uniting instruction with amusement: consisting of The children who were fond of climbing; Matty in the flower-garden; The boys who tore their clothes and The girl who was kind to the poor. Ornamented with copper-plate engravings.
Contributors
Signed Author [Anonymous]
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Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination 36
Date of Publication 1809
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Date of First Publication
Imprint Johnson & Warner, no. 147, Market Street.
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
Format
Length (cm) 13
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Notes AAS Notes:
Cover title and imprint vary: Johnson & Warner's juvenile library, The children who were fond of climbing; and other tales. No. 147. Market-Street Philadelphia.
Caption title: Tales.
"Lydia R. Bailey, printer, no. 10, North Alley."--colophon, p. 36.
In blue stiff-paper cover.
"At Johnson & Warner's Juvenile Library, no 147, Market-Street"--publisher's advertisement, lower cover.
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,
Nipps, K. Lydia Bailey,
Catalogued
Condition reviewed
American Antiquarian Society copy is metal engravings are hand-colored (by reader?). Title page cropped, with partial loss of title. Inscribed: Emily W. Wister, Jan. 12th 1858; William Wister's book ; The Youth's Library no. 68.
Hand-Verified No
Verified Yes
Attempted Verification No

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Unknown. Tales uniting instruction with amusement: consisting of The children who were fond of climbing; Matty in the flower-garden; The boys who tore their clothes and The girl who was kind to the poor. Ornamented with copper-plate engravings.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21064, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21064. Accessed 2024-04-28. 

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  author={Unknown,},
  year={1809},
  title={Tales uniting instruction with amusement: consisting of The children who were fond of climbing; Matty in the flower-garden; The boys who tore their clothes and The girl who was kind to the poor. Ornamented with copper-plate engravings.},
  publisher={Jacob Johnson & Benjamin Warner},
  address={Philadelphia},    }

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