The Children's miscellany: [electronic resource] : in which is included The history of little Jack; by Thomas Day, Esq. Author of The history of Sandford and Merton. : [Four lines from Dryden]
- Bib ID:
- 3382235
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/evans/30190
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- Edition:
- First American edition; embellished with thirty-five cuts and frontispieces.
- Description:
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- Boston: : Printed and sold by William Spotswood., 1796
- [4], 331, [1] p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm. (12mo)
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 30190.
- Full contents:
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- The history of little Jack
- The little queen
- The natural history of the bee
- Of the silkworm
- Epistle to a friend, on his return from the army
- The universal prayer [by Alexander Pope]
- The history of Philip Quarll [by Peter Longueville]
- A sketch of universal history - On Thomas Day Esq.
- Gray's elegy. Written in a church-yard
- The epitaph
- The elephant
- The lion
- Of the two-horned rhinoceros
- Of the humming-bird
- The nightingale
- The red-breast
- The three brothers
- The three sisters
- The contrast
- The diverting history of John Gilpin [by William Cowper]
- Fatal effects of delay
- The nosegay
- Courage inspired by friendship
- The duel; or the history of Emmeline and Jenny.
- Notes:
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- Pages [1]-91 are typographically identical with: Day, Thomas. The history of little Jack. Boston : William Spotswood, 1795 (Evans 28539).
- Frontispiece engraved by Edward C. Trenchard. Additional frontispiece at p. [278] engraved by J.G. Weston.
- Error in paging: p. 79 misnumbered 97.
- Bookseller's advertisement, p. [332].
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
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- Evans 30190
- Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 186
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Series I, Evans (1639-1800); no. 30190). Mode of access : World Wide Web.
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- Place:
- United States Massachusetts Boston.
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- Copyright:
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