Tom Thumb's play-book : to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Being a new and pleasant method to allure little ones in the first principles of learning.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12250.

Standardized Title:

Tom Thumb.

Language:

English

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1771.

Alphabet books -- 1771.

Catechisms.

Prayers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (31 pages, 1 unnumbered page)

Place of Publication:

Boston: : Printed and sold by Kneeland and Adams, in Milk-Street., 1771.

System Details:

text file

Notes:

First and last leaves pasted to wrapper.

Not recorded by Evans, but filmed as part of the Early American imprints series in place of Evans 12250 ("Printed for J. Boyle"). "Apparently the imprint given by Evans was his assumption from an adv."--Shipton and Mooney. A copies of both the Kneeland and Adams and the Boyle imprints are recorded in Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, entries 71 and 72.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Includes a Scripture catechism, graces, and prayers.

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 12250).

Cited in:

Shipton and Mooney 12250

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 1318.4

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 71

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