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A present for a little boy. : [Two lines from Cotton].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Darton, William, 1755-1819.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 50421.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Children.
- Animals.
- Animal welfare--Juvenile literature.
- Animal welfare.
- Birds.
- Kites--Juvenile poetry.
- Kites.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1804.
- Gift books -- 1804.
- Poems -- 1804.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 60 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Edition:
- A new edition, improved.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Published by Jacob Johnson, no. 147, High-Street., 1804.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Includes short prose pieces about animals (such as learned pigs), as well as several poems.
- By William Darton.
- Edition statement from head of frontispiece.
- "A. & G. Way, printers."--colophon, p. [58]. A. & G. Way printed in Philadelphia between 1803 and 1804.
- Illustrated with both metal engravings and wood engravings. Metal-engraved illustrations appear on the same pages as printed text. The metal engraving on p. [26] is signed: W.R.[i.e., William Ralph] sc. The wood-engraved frontispiece and title vignette are signed: A. [i.e., Alexander Anderson].
- "Books lately published and for sale, by Jacob Johnson ..."--advertisement, p. [59-60].
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 50421).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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