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
Other author Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793.
Other author Thackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed and published by John Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut Street, 1819.
Descriptioniv, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subjects

Uniform titleAmi des enfants. Selections. English
SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 47205. ^A575643
Early American imprints. Second series no. 48511. ^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 noteFrontispiece signed: Thackara [i.e., James Thackara] sc.
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 ..."--advertisement, p. [272].
References Shaw & Shoemaker 47205
References Shaw & Shoemaker 48511
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 77.8
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. 47205).
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. 48511).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1819.
Genre/formPoems 1819.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

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