The History of the prodigal son: taken from the Gospel according to St. Luke, chapter XV. : Illustrated with six elegant copperplates. : Designed for the instruction and amusement of youth.

Format:

Book

Series:

Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 44339.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bible stories.

Picture books for children.

Prodigal son (Parable)--Juvenile literature.

Prodigal son (Parable).

Fathers and sons--Juvenile literature.

Fathers and sons.

Genre:

Juvenile literature -- 1813.

Parables.

Hymns.

Publishers' advertisements -- New York (State) -- New York.

Physical Description:

1 unnumbered leaf, 6 leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf, 6 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 12 x 13 cm

Place of Publication:

New-York: : Griffin & Rudd, no. 189 Greenwich-Street, and Thomas Gimbrede, no. 101 Read-Street., 1813. Price 18 3-4 cents plain [a]nd 25 cents coloured.

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Notes:

Cover title. At head of title: No. 1.

Copyright May [date obscured], 1813 by Griffin & Rudd. The copyright statement and the advertisement below it are printed on a slip pasted to back cover.

Mistakenly dated 1818 by Shaw & Shoemaker. "The date 1813 is indistinct and looks like 1818. The firm of Griffin & Rudd ceased to exist with the death of Charles Rudd on Oct. 2, 1815."--Welch.

"Hymn. The repenting prodigal."--final leaf, affixed to cover. Without music.

"Griffin & Rudd ... have constantly on hand, a great variety of interesting and useful books for children, and they intend continuing the publication of a series of engraved toy books ..."--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. 44339).

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