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A birth day present; or, A New Year's gift. : Being nine day's conversation between a mother and daughter, on interesting subjects; : for the use of young persons, from ten to fifteen years of age.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 8036. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Somerville, Elizabeth, 1774-1840.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8036.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Etiquette for children and teenagers.
- Children--Conduct of life.
- Children.
- Birthdays--Juvenile fiction.
- Birthdays.
- Mothers and daughters--Juvenile fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 104 pages ; 15 cm
- Edition:
- Second American from the fourth London edition.
- Other Title:
- Birthday present.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed by David Carlisle, for John West, no. 75, Cornhill., 1805.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- "The editor of the present edition of this little book wishes, that every miss and master in the United States might read it ..."--note, p. [3], 1st count, dated: Boston, January 1, 1803.
- Attributed to Elizabeth Somerville in Shaw & Shoemaker (entry 5078).
- "A birth day ode. By Alexander Pope."--p. [103]-104.
- 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. 8036).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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