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The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of schools. By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1787 Gree Api 787 C13
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greenwood, James, -1737 20195
- Language:
- Multiple languages
- Physical Description:
- viii,123,[1]p. : ill. ; 12°.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
- Notes:
- This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky.
- Local Notes:
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Evans 20398; Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117
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