A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun. Second edition, revised.

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Title A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun. Second edition, revised.
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Signed Author By Jesse Torrey, Jun.
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Volumes 1
Pagination vi, 7–142
Date of Publication 1830
Edition Statement Second edition, revised.
Edition Number 2
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Imprint Published and sold by Isaac T. Hopper, 420 Pearl-Street: and by M.T.C. Gould, no. 6, North Eighth-Street, Philadelphia.
Colophon Stereotyped by L. Johnson.
Copyright Statement Eastern District of Pennsylvania, to wit: BE IT REMEMBERED, That on the twenty-fourth day of March, in the forty-ninth year of the Independence of the United States of America, A.D. 1824, Jesse Torrey, Jr. of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a book the right whereof he claims as Author, in the words following, to wit: A Pleasing Companion for little Girls and Boys: blending Instruction with Amusement. Being a selection of Interesting Stories, Dialogues, Fables and Poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jr. To secure the perpetuation of our republican form of government to future generations, let Divines and Philosophers, Statesmen and Patriots, unite their endeavours to renovate the age, by impressing the minds of the people with the importance of educating their little boys and girls. S. Adams. In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies, during the times therein mentioned;"—And also to the Act, entitled, "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing New York US
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Edgeworth, Maria, Berquin, Arnaud, Day, Thomas, Taylor, Jane. A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys: blending instruction with amusement. Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries. By Jesse Torrey, Jun. Second edition, revised.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 24863, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/24863. Accessed 2024-12-21. 

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  year={1830},
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  publisher={Isaac T. Hopper \& },
  address={New York},    }

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