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The pious parent's gift, or, A plain and familiar sermon, wherein the principles of the Christian religion, are proposed, and clearly represented to the minds of children : each part of which is accompanied with select verses from the works of Dr. Watts / by William Mason ... to which is added, The closet companion : and The swearer's prayer.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1815 Mas Aj815 M 41
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mason, William, 1719-1791 21864
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children--Religious life--69519.
- Children.
- Genre:
- Publishers' advertisements -- Connecticut -- Hartford -- 1815.
- Children's sermons.
- Physical Description:
- 71, [1] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (wood engraving) ; 14 cm. (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Pious parent's gift.
- Plain and familiar sermon.
- Closet companion.
- Serious advice to persons who have been sick.
- Place of Publication:
- Hartford : Published by O.D. Cooke, B. & J. Russell, Print., 1815.
- Notes:
- Cover title: "Serious advice to persons who have been sick ... from the fifty-first London edition."
- "The closet companion" has a separate t.p. (p. [43]). It is signed G.B. (George Burder?).
- "Serious advice ..." begins on p. [57].
- Does not include The swearer's prayer.
- Date on cover: 1814.
- Publisher's advertisement on back wrapper.
- First [2] p. and last p. blank.
- Signatures: A-F[superscript 6].
- Local Notes:
- With frontis.
- Retrospective conversion record: RLIN.
- HSP in LCP.
- Cited in:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 35197
- Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early Amer. Children's books 527
- Rosenbach, 527
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