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The entertaining history of Giles Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning. : Adorned with copperplate engravings.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 51491. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51491.
- 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.
- Boys--Employment--Juvenile fiction.
- Poor--Juvenile fiction.
- Poor.
- Social classes--Juvenile fiction.
- Social classes.
- Household employees--Juvenile fiction.
- Household employees.
- Honesty--Juvenile fiction.
- Honesty.
- Literacy--Juvenile fiction.
- Literacy.
- Alphabet--Juvenile fiction.
- Alphabet.
- Charity--Juvenile fiction.
- Charity.
- Nature--Juvenile poetry.
- Nature.
- Love poetry.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1815.
- Poems -- 1815.
- Fiction.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 24 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm
- Other Title:
- Entertaining history of Giles Gingerbread.
- Giles Gingerbread.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Published and sold by Benjamin C. Buzby, no. 2, North Third Street. D. Dickinson, printer., 1815.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Caption title: The history of Giles Gingerbread.
- Running title: Giles Gingerbread.
- Sometimes attributed to John Newbery, who was the first to publish it and other stories especially intended for children. Cf. Dict. of national biog.
- "The morning dream."--p. 23-24, in verse.
- 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. 51491).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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