The Instructive history of industry and sloth. : Adorned with cuts.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51014.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's stories.

Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Conduct of life.

Work ethic--Juvenile fiction.

Work ethic.

Temperance--Juvenile fiction.

Temperance.

Families--Juvenile fiction.

Families.

Honesty--Juvenile fiction.

Honesty.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1810.

Allegories.

Riddles.

Poems -- 1810.

Booksellers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- New Haven.

Chapbooks -- 1810.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

29 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 11 cm

Place of Publication:

[New Haven] : From Sidney's Press. New-Haven, 1810.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Contents:

Industry and sloth

Honesty rewarded

Riddles [in verse]

Questions.

Notes:

One of two very similar editions. In the present edition, p. [4] contains the alphabet in lowercase and in uppercase, together with fourteen 'double letters' [i.e., ligatures]. The last word on p. 9 is "I".

Pages [1] and [32] blank; pasted to wrapper.

Books. For children and for schools. A very extensive variety, for sale by I. Cooke & Co in boxes assorted, they are offered to booksellers ten per cent lower than they can be imported. Cash paid for rags."--advertisement, p. [31].

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. 51014).

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