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The History of birds. : [Two lines from Genesis].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 28748. Connect to full text. Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 28748.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Birds.
- Animal welfare.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1813.
- Chapbooks -- 1813.
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 29 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 11 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New-York: : Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, at the Juvenile Book-store, no. 357, Pearl-street., 1813.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- Ostrich
- Jackdaw
- Canary bird
- Falcon
- Goldfinch
- Roller
- Penguin
- Kite
- Nightingale
- Thrush
- Gull
- Yellow bird
- Quail
- Wren.
- Notes:
- Introduction, verso of title page, promotes the humane treatment of birds.
- Title vignette signed: A [i.e., Alexander Anderson].
- Page [1], 1st count, and p. [30] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
- Two impressions noted, with varied ornaments but apparently printed from substantially the same setting of type. In the present impression, the last line on p. 29 reads "See the book of Riddles." In the other impression, the line reads "See the Book of Riddles."
- 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. 28748).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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