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Dame Partlet's farm: containing an account of the great riches she obtained by industry, the good life she led, and alas good reader ...

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E-Book
Distribution:
Philadelphia : Published and for sale by Johnson and Warner, no. 147, Market Street, and at their bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, and Lexington, Kentucky. J. Bouvier, printer, 1810 [i.e., 1819]
Related Series:
Early American imprints > Second series; no. 19912
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Contributors:
Hodson, J. (James)
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870 , engraver
Languages:
English
Language Notes:
Item content: English
Full Title:
Dame Partlet's farm: containing an account of the great riches she obtained by industry, the good life she led, and alas good reader! her sudden death;: to which is added, a hymn, written by Dame Partlet, just before her death, and an epitaph for her tomb stone
Related Series:
Early American imprints > Second series; no. 19912
Subjects:
Children's stories
Children's poetry
Widows — Juvenile poetry
Literacy
Poor — Juvenile fiction
Charity — Juvenile fiction
Country life — Juvenile fiction
May Day — Juvenile fiction
Funeral rites and ceremonies
Widows
Poor
Charity
Country life
May Day
Genres:
Juvenile literature — 1819
Poems — 1819
Booksellers' advertisements — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia
Publishers' advertisements — Pennsylvania — Philadelphia
Poetry
Fiction
Juvenile works
General Notes:
In prose and verse.
Cover title and imprint vary: Dame Partlet's farm: with an account of the good life she led. From the Juvenile Library [of Benjamin Warner], no. 171, Market Street, Philadelphia. 1819. Griggs & Co. printers.
Welch notes that a copy of a London edition bears the holograph note: This book was written by Dr. James Hodson.
Wood-engraving on p. 9 signed: A. [i.e., Alexander Anderson].
Page [60] blank; pasted to printed stiffened paper cover.
Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.
"At Johnson's store, in Market-Street, a sure reward, good children meet ..."--bookseller's advertisement, in verse, p. [3].
"Just published, and for sale at Benjamin Warner's bookstore ..."--advertisement, back cover.
Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 253.2
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 573
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19912).
Physical Description:
59 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 17 cm
Digital Characteristics:
text file
Call Numbers:
AC1 .D364 1819eb
OCLC Numbers:
1039116415