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The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. : Adorned with twenty-six pictures. : For the use of schools
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The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin: [microform] : put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. : Adorned with twenty-six pictures. : For the use of schools. / By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School.
Published
Philadelphia: : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers., M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
Physical Description
viii, 123, [1] p. : ill. ; 16 cm. (12mo)
Notes
This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky.
Signatures: A⁴ B-L⁶ M² (M2 verso blank).
Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20398).
Format
Books / Microforms
Language
Multiple languages; English; Latin
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2002
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 20398
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children's books, 117
Subjects
Genre/Form
Dictionaries.
Juvenile literature - 1787.
Also listed under
United States Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
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