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The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. : Adorned with twenty-six pictures. : For the use of schools. / By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School.
Van Pelt - Microtext Microfiche 821 no. 20398
Mixed Availability
- Format:
- Microformat
- Author/Creator:
- Greenwood, James, -1737.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20398.
- Language:
- English
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Latin language--Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Latin language.
- Latin language--Readers.
- Picture books for children.
- Genre:
- Glossaries, vocabularies, etc.
- Readers (Publications)
- Dictionaries.
- Juvenile literature -- 1787.
- Controlled vocabularies.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo)
- 4x6 in.
- monochrome
- service copy
- negative
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
- Notes:
- This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky.
- Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20398).
- Cited in:
- Evans 20398
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117
- OCLC:
- 62797835
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