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Visit for a week, or, Hints on the improvement of time. : Containing, original tales, entertaining stories, interesting anecdotes, and sketches from natural and moral history. To which is added, a poetical appendix, designed for the amusement of youth. [Four lines from Voltaire] Embellished with an elegant frontispiece.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816.
- Series:
- Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1796.
- Poems -- 1796.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages,275 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 12⁰
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Ormrod and Conrad, no. 41, Chesnut-Street, 1796.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Notes:
- Attributed to Peacock in the Dictionary of national biography.
- Frontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
- Error in paging: p. 253 misnumbered 254.
- "Books published by J. Ormrod, no. 41, Chesnut-Street."--p. [276].
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
- Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
- Cited in:
- Evans, 30966
- Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 9791
- English Short Title Catalog, W28545.
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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