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The entertaining history of Tommy Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning. : Ornamented with cuts.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51192.
- Standardized Title:
- Giles Gingerbread.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Boys--Juvenile fiction.
- Boys.
- Fathers and sons--Juvenile fiction.
- Fathers and sons.
- Poor--Juvenile fiction.
- Poor.
- Social classes--Juvenile fiction.
- Social classes.
- Boys--Employment--Juvenile fiction.
- Household employees--Juvenile fiction.
- Household employees.
- Honesty--Juvenile fiction.
- Honesty.
- Literacy--Juvenile fiction.
- Literacy.
- Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
- Alphabet.
- Charity--Juvenile fiction.
- Charity.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1813.
- Chapbooks -- 1813.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Hartford.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 30 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
- Other Title:
- The history of Tommy Gingerbread.
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford: : Printed by Hale & Hosmer., 1812 [that is, 1813]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Cover title: The history of Tommy Gingerbread, who lived upon learning. Hartford: Printed by Hale & Hosmer. 1813.
- Most editions have the name Giles Gingerbread in the title.
- Sometimes attributed to John Newbery, who was the first to publish it and other stories especially intended for children. Cf. Dict. of national biog.
- Last page blank.
- Advertisement for "useful and entertaining publications for young minds, printed and for sale by Hale & Hosmer," 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. 51192).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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