- The first book for children : being an attempt to make the art of reading English both easy and pleasant : by adapting the matter and manner of expression to the capacities of young chldren
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- Language:
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- English
- Call number:
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- Eng 18 15360
- Extent:
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- 120 pages : illustrations (woodcuts) : 14 cm
- Format:
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- Book
- Type:
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- Study and teaching
- Primers--18th century
- Pictorial works
- Early works to 1800
- Description:
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- Similarly-titled later books attributed to other publishers, including Newbery (1787).
- Princeton copy 1: Lacks pages 81-92 (which have been cut away) following the beginning of "Cautions against certain superstitious notions and customs, prejudicial to true religion".
- Princeton copy 1: Inked stamp of the Educational Museum on title page.
- Publisher:
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- London : Printed for John Ward at the King's Arms over-against the Royal Exchange, Cornhill, and Jer. Roe, in Derby, MDCCLIV [1754]
- Subject:
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- Animals—Pictorial works
- English language—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800
- Arithmetic—Study and teaching—Early works to 1800
- Primers--18th century
- Title sort:
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- first book for children : being an attempt to make the art of reading English both easy and pleasant : by adapting the matter and manner of expression to the capacities of young chldren.
- Created:
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- 1754-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Date:
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- 1754
- Identifier:
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- ark:/88435/pg15bp047
- Location:
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- CTSN Eng 18 15360
- Edm rights:
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- No Known Copyright
- Range label:
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- Logical
- Edition:
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- The eighth edition, with additions.
- Binding note:
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- Princeton copy 1: Later full calf.
- Abstract:
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- Alphabet letters, two- and three-letter words and syllables, "Easy lessons," short "sentences" with illustrative woodcuts ("A Bull: The stout bull hath short horns" / "A cow: The black cow gives white milk," short reading "lessons," with several of the passages about animals, moral precepts, and a section on numbers and measures
- Bookseller:
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- Ward, John, -1760
- Roe, Jeremiah