Worlds displayed; for the benefit of young people, by a familiar history of some of their inhabitants. [electronic resource] : [Four lines of Scripture texts]

Bib ID:
3746447
Format:
Book
Author:
Campbell, John, 1766-1840
Online Version:
http://opac.newsbank.com/select/shaw/22468
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Description:
  • Boston: : Printed and sold at no. 53, Cornhill, by Lincoln & Edmands. Who publish a great variety of cheap religious tracts. On cash purchases of 5 dols. a discount of 5 per cent. will be made; over 10 dols. 10 per cent. The orders of charitable distributors, resident in any part of the United States, promptly answered., 1811. Price, 1,20 cts. a doz. 9 dols. a hundred
  • 70, [2] p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22468.
Notes:
  • An allegory.
  • "The design of this little book is to impress the minds of young people with the importance of time and eternity, and to exhibit the close connexion that there is betwixt them. ... The first edition having gone off in less than four months encourages me to publish a second ..."--Preface, t.p. verso, signed: John Campbell. Edinburgh, February 25, 1800.
  • Errors in paging: p. 20, 22, 31 misnumbered 21, 20, 13.
  • Pages [1] and [72] blank; pasted to wrapper.
  • Pages [2] and [71] have wood engravings illustrating various quotations from the Bible.
  • Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Cited In:
  • Shaw & Shoemaker 22468
  • Shaw & Shoemaker 22435a
  • Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 154.9
Reproduction:
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 22468).
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