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Interesting traits of character : in youth of both sexes / by Mrs. Ventum.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Singer-Mendenhall Collection PR5704.V43 I58 1804
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ventum, H. (Harriet)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Characters and characteristics--Juvenile literature.
- Children's stories.
- Penn Provenance:
- Pearson, W. (inscription) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Canston(?), C. (inscription) (Singer-Mendenhall copy)
- Physical Description:
- 168 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 ill. ; 18 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for J. Harris, 1804.
- Contents:
- Reliance on Providence
- The fair
- The mendicant
- The visitor
- The lesson
- Scandal
- Eliza and Fanny
- The Negro
- The parish girl.
- Notes:
- Woodcut title vignette.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on back pastedown.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2018 from Stuart Bennett.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy has partially illegible dated 19th-century ms. gift inscription ("The gift of the Revd. W. Pearson to Mast. C. Canston[?] for speaking well at Mids[...] 1809") on front free endpaper.
- Singer-Mendenhall copy: woodcut title vignette hand-colored in green and yellow by a reader.
- Cited in:
- Moon, M. Harris (1992), 948
- OCLC:
- 1008239172
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