A little pretty pocket-book, intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy, and pretty Miss Polly : with two letters from Jack the Giant-Killer as also a ball and pincushion : the use of which will infallibly make Tommy a good boy, and Polly a good girl : to which is added, a little song-book, being a new attempt to teach children the use of the English alphabet, by way of diversion.

Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
1st Worcester ed.
Published/​Created
[New York?] : F.G. Melcher, 1944.
Description
122 p. : ill. ; 10 cm.

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Subject(s)
Rare books genre
Notes
  • "'Little pretty pocket-book' was the first volume published for children by John Newbery of London. Of that edition, June 1744, no single copy has survived. The 1st American edition was published by Isaiah Thomas at Worcester, Mass., in 1787. This facsimile from the copy in the New York Public Library is issued by F.G. Melcher on the 10th of June, 1944, on the 200th anniversary of the book's first appearance."--T.p. verso.
  • "Rules for behaviour in children": p. [94]-122.
  • Bookseller's advertisements, p. [123]-[124].
References
  • Evans, 20459
  • Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 120
  • Haviland, V. Yankee Doodle's literary sampler, p. 68-79
OCLC
28750166
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