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Item Description:"The following pages are chiefly the production of two young ladies, whose duty to an aged and infirm parent, induced them to assign the trifling profits arising therefrom to her assistance and precarious support."--Preface, p. [3], at beginning. Poems variously signed, "Mary," (i.e., Mary Belson Elliott) and "Eliza." (i.e., Elizabeth Belson). Also includes poetry by other authors including Isaac Watts.
Metal-engraved plates.
Last page blank.
"Just published, and for sale at Johnson & Warner's book-store ..."--advertisement, back cover.
Physical Description:[7], 10-69, [1] p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. ; 15 cm
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Place of Publication:United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
Reproduction Note:Electronic text and image data.
Additional Physical Form available Note:Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Citation/References Note:Shaw & Shoemaker
Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books,
Moon, M. Elliott,
Language:English
Series:Early American imprints. no. 23094.
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