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Simple stories / by the author of The pastime of learning.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Welsh, Jane Kilby, 1783?-, author.
- Series:
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.
- Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's stories.
- Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.
- Conduct of life.
- Siblings--Juvenile fiction.
- Siblings.
- Brothers and sisters.
- Children--Death--Religious aspects--Juvenile fiction.
- Children.
- School children--Juvenile fiction.
- School children.
- Gardening.
- Needlework.
- Children--Books and reading.
- Seasons--Juvenile fiction.
- Seasons.
- Orphanages--Juvenile fiction.
- Orphanages.
- Book industries and trade.
- Temperance--Juvenile fiction.
- Temperance.
- Children--Death--Religious aspects.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 volume (various pagings)) : color illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Cottons and Barnard, MDCCCXXXII.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- The gold thimble
- Jane Courtney
- The flower girl
- The adventures of a bodkin
- The contrast
- Edwin
- Contentment
- The little wanderers
- My own history.
- Notes:
- A collection of nine stories, each with separate title page.
- "The author trusts that ... her attempt to impart innocent pleasure, and to instil [sic] correct principles and the love of virtue in the minds of the rising generation, will neither be overlooked nor disregarded."--Preface, page 6.
- By Jane Kilby Welsh. See title page to her View of the heathen world (Worcester, Mass.: Dorr, Howland and Company, 1834).
- Imprint statement from cover.
- Copyright 1831 by Cottons and Barnard.
- "Clapp & Hull, printers, 184 Washington Street, Boston."--Title page verso.
- Some wood engravings variously signed by John H. Hall, Abel Bowen, and "H." [id est Alonzo Hartwell?].
- Error in pagination: pages 49-50 (seventh count) inserted backwards.
- In printed boards with leather spine.
- Errata note--page [4].
- Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.
- OCLC:
- 905333944
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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