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The looking-glass for the mind, or The juvenile friend : being a valuable collection of interesting and miscellaneous incidents, calculated to exhibit to young minds the happy effects of youthful innocence, and filial affection; in prose and verse: designed to improve and amuse the rising generation. : Embellished with an elegant frontispiece, and seventy-three cuts.

Author/creator Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791
Other author/creatorJohnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793, translator.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed and sold by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street, 1815.
Descriptioniv, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Uniform titleAmi des enfants. Selections. English
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 34440. ^A575643
General noteSelection of prose and poetry translated from Arnaud Berquin's L'Ami des enfans. Possibly translated by Richard Johnson. Cf. Weedon, M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery." The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 37, 55-56.
General noteCaption and running title: The looking-glass.
General noteTitle vignette includes the phrase: Reading improves the mind.
General note"John Bioren keeps constantly for sale a general assortment of miscellaneous and school books ..."--p. [272].
References Shaw & Shoemaker 34440
References Shaw & Shoemaker 51466
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 77.6
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 34440).
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 51466).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1815.
Genre/formPoems 1815.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.