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The happy family: or, Winter evening's employment: Consisting of readings and conversations. : To which is added, select fables of Esop. : [Four lines of verse].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Friend of youth, active 19th century.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 10524.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Animals--Juvenile fiction.
- Animals.
- Slavery--Juvenile fiction.
- Slavery.
- Temperance--Juvenile fiction.
- Temperance.
- Time management--Juvenile fiction.
- Time management.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1806.
- Fables -- 1806.
- Dialogues.
- Poems -- 1806.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 5 unnumbered pages, 8-58 pages : illustrations ; 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed and published by John C. Totten, no. 155 Chatham-street., 1806.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- An abridgment of: The happy family; or, Winter evenings' employment. Consisting of readings and conversations, in seven parts ... By a friend of youth. (New Haven: Increase Cooke & Co., 1803).
- "I have enriched my little volume with passages from various admired authors; particularly from the late incomparable work of Hannah More ..."--Preface, to the 1803 edition, p. [v].
- "The child's complaint."--poem, p. [40].
- Fables, p. [41]-58.
- 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. 10524).
- Contains:
- Aesop's fables. Selections. English
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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