The History of insects : [Two lines from Genesis].

Other author Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825.
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, at the Juvenile Book-store, no. 357, Pearl-street, 1813.
Description2 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations
Supplemental ContentShaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
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SeriesEarly American imprints. Second series no. 28750. ^A575643
Contents Elephant-beetle -- Grasshopper -- Cricket -- Locust -- Flea -- Louse -- Itch. Mite. Chego. Deathwatch -- Scorpion -- Ants -- Honey-bee -- Dragon fly -- Butterfly -- Spider -- [Silkworm].
General notePreface, p. [3]-5, advocates the humane treatment of all creatures, "great or small."
General notePage [1], 1st count, and p. [30] are blank.
General noteWith a poem by Mrs. Barbauld on verso of title page.
General note"Samuel Wood informs the good little boys and girls ... if they will please to call at his Juvenile Book-store, ... it will be his pleasure to furnish them with a great variety of pretty little books, ... Besides many from Philadelphia, New-Haven, and elsewhere, he has twenty kinds of his own printing, and proposes to enlarge the number."--Advertisement, p. [29].
References Shaw & Shoemaker 28750
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 544.5
References Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 475
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. 28750).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1813.
Genre/formPoems 1813.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements New York (State) New York.
Genre/formChapbooks 1813.

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