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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greenwood, James, -1737, author.

Contributor:

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670.

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:

1 online resource (viii, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia: : Printed by Carey and Company and sold by all the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]

System Details:

text file

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.

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 20398).

Cited in:

Evans 20398

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117

Related Work:

Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Orbis sensualium pictus. English

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