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The children in the wood : an instructive tale / by Clara English.
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 8397. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- English, Clara.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8397.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Children's poetry.
- Siblings--Juvenile literature.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Orphans--Juvenile literature.
- Orphans.
- Uncles--Juvenile literature.
- Uncles.
- Infanticide--Juvenile literature.
- Infanticide.
- Older women--Juvenile fiction.
- Older women.
- Charity-schools--Juvenile fiction.
- Charity-schools.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1803.
- Folk tales -- 1803.
- Ballads.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 64 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Publish'd by J. Johnson., 1803.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- A version of the story in which an old woman finds the children in the wood and places them in a school of industry.
- Contains metal-engraved illustrations that appear on the same pages as printed text. The title page is wholly engraved.
- Without colophon. Another issue has colophon: Printed by Budd & Bartram.
- Mistakenly dated 1805 by Shaw & Shoemaker.
- Last page blank.
- "A ballad. The children in the wood, or The Norfolk gentleman's last will and testament."--p. 57-63.
- 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. 8397).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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