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Format:
Book
Contributor:
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Series:
Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 13121.
Standardized Title:
History of the beggarly boy.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Sunday school literature.
Children's stories.
Christian life.
Child beggars--Juvenile fiction.
Child beggars.
Genre:
Sunday school literature.
Juvenile literature -- 1807.
Parables.
Fables -- 1807.
Poems -- 1807.
Fiction.
Physical Description:
36 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 15 cm
Place of Publication:
[Philadelphia] : Published by B. Johnson no. 247 Market St Philadelphia, [1807?]
System Details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
text file
Notes:
The engraved title page contains the only illustration.
Caption title: The history of the beggarly boy.
Attributed to Hannah More by A.S.W. Rosenbach and in Shaw & Shoemaker, and tentatively dated 1807.
First published, under title "The history of the beggarly boy," as no. 30 in the Cheap repository series.
"The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks. A fable."--p. [27]-31, in verse. By Hannah More.
"The lady and the pye."--p. [32]-36, in verse. By Hannah More.
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. 13121).
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