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Gaffer Goose's golden plaything; : being a new collection of entertaining fables. : Intended as a present for all those good girls and boys who behave according to the following rules: That is, do as they are bid, come when they are called, and shut the door after them.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 15082. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 15082.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1808.
- Fables -- 1808.
- Gift books -- 1808.
- Publishers' advertisements -- New Hampshire -- Exeter.
- Chapbooks -- 1808.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Exeter [N.H.] : Printed and sold by Norris & Sawyer., 1808.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- The hare and the tortoise
- The war horse and loaded ass
- The frog and the ox
- The wolves and the sick ass
- The jackdaw and the sheep
- The peacock's complaint
- The ape and her two young ones
- The thunny and the dolphin
- The fox and the wolf
- The dove and the ant
- The lark and her young ones
- The lion and the frog
- The river fish and the sea fish
- The shepherd turned merchant
- The snail and butterfly
- The rose.
- Notes:
- Pages [1] and [32] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
- "New books for children, printed and sold wholesale and retail, by Norris & Sawyer ..."--advertisement, p. [30-31]. "Gaffer Goose's golden plaything." is listed, with "Price 6 cents."
- 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. 15082).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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