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The looking-glass for the mind, or, The juvenile friend; : being a valuable collection of interesting and miscellaneous incidents, calculated to exhibit to young minds the happy effects of youthful innocence, and filial affection; : in prose and verse: : designed to improve and amuse the rising generation. : Embellished with an elegant frontispiece, and seventy-three cuts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 47205.
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 48511.
- Standardized Title:
- Ami des enfans. English. Selections
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories, French.
- Children's poetry.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1819.
- Poems -- 1819.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- iv, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut Street., 1819.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Selection of prose and poetry translated from Arnaud Berquin's L'Ami des enfans. Possibly translated by Richard Johnson. Cf. Weedon, M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery." The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 37, 55-56.
- Caption and running title: The looking-glass.
- Frontispiece signed: Thackara [i.e., James Thackara] sc.
- Title vignette includes the phrase: Reading improves the mind.
- "John Bioren keeps constantly for sale a general assortment of miscellaneous and school books ..."--advertisement, p. [272].
- 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. 47205).
- 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. 48511).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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