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An Entertaining story book for little boys and girl's : containing a number of jests, and diverting stories, together with some pleasant jokes for the amusement of children. : Adorn'd with cuts.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 43626 Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 43626.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Wit and humor.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1779.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (32 unnumbered pages) : illustrations
- Other Title:
- Be merry and wise, or The cream of the jests.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed and sold by N. Coverly in Newbury-Street., MDCCLXXIX. [1779] Price five shillings.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Running-title: Be merry and wise, or The cream of the jests. For most of the work "or The cream of the jests" appears on the recto, and "Be merry and wise" on the verso of each leaf, causing the running title to read backwards.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Incorporated, 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; numbers 43626).
- Cited in:
- Bristol B4874
- Shipton and Mooney 43626
- Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 366.1
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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