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Visit for a week, or, Hints on the improvement of time. : Containing, original tales, entertaining stories, interesting anecdotes, and sketches from natural and moral history. : To which is added, a poetical appendix, designed for the amusement of youth. : [Four lines from Voltaire] : Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
Evans Digital Edition Connect to full text, no. 30966 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816, author.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. First series ; no. 30966.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1796.
- Poems -- 1796.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (4 unnumbered pages, 275 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed by Ormrod and Conrad, numbers 41, Chesnut-Street., 1796.
- System Details:
- text file
- Notes:
- Attributed to Lucy Peacock in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
- Error in paging: pages 253 misnumbered 254.
- "Books published by J. Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street."--p. [276].
- 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 30966).
- Cited in:
- Evans 30966
- Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 979.1
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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