2 options
Worlds displayed; for the benefit of young people, by a familiar history of some of their inhabitants. : [Four lines of Scripture texts].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 34274. Connect to full text. Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Campbell, John, 1766-1840.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 34274.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Children--Religious life.
- Children.
- Future life.
- Christian converts from Judaism--Juvenile fiction.
- Christian converts from Judaism.
- Conversion--Juvenile fiction.
- Conversion.
- Bible stories--Adaptations.
- Bible stories.
- Genre:
- Adaptations.
- Juvenile literature -- 1816.
- Allegories.
- Hymns.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 68 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Printed & published by Lincoln & Edmands, sold at their Bible Warehouse, and Theological & Miscellaneous Bookstore, no. 53 Cornhill., 1815 [that is, 1816]. Price, 1,12 cts. a doz. 8 dols a hundred.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- An allegory.
- "The design of this little book is to impress the minds of young people with the importance of time and eternity, and to exhibit the close connexion that there is betwixt them. ... The first edition having gone off in less than four months, encourages me to publish a second ..."--Preface, p. [2], signed: John Campbell. Edinburgh, Feb. 25, 1800.
- Cover has imprint date: 1816.
- Pages [1] and [70] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
- Pages [2] and [69] have wood engravings illustrating various quotations from the Bible.
- "Hymns for children."--p. [62]-68.
- "Lincoln & Edmands, keep for sale ... "--advertisement, back cover.
- 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. 34274).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.