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My sister. : A poem / by Mary Belson. ; Illustrated with elegant engravings.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 37505. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elliott, Mary, 1794?-1870.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 37505.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Sisters--Juvenile poetry.
- Sisters.
- Siblings--Juvenile poetry.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1816.
- Booksellers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 6 unnumbered leaves : illustrations ; 14 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Published and sold by Wm Charles price plain 12 1/2 cents coloured [blank] cents., 1816.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Written by Mary (Belson Elliott) in imitation of Ann Taylor's "My mother."
- Cover title.
- Text and illustrations are metal-engraved throughout, presumably by William Charles. Cf. Weiss, Harry B. William Charles, early caricaturist, engraver and publisher of children's books, New York, 1932, p. 10.
- "Of Wm Charles may also be had the following little poems (in the same stile [sic] as this) My mother. My son. My daughter. Our Saviour. Gratitude. and a variety of others."--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. 37505).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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