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Juvenile trials for robbing orchards, telling fibs, and other heinous offences
Title
Juvenile trials for robbing orchards, telling fibs, and other heinous offences / by Master Tommy Littleton ..., with a sequel by Dr. Aikin.
Publication
Boston : Printed for F. Nichols, 1797.
Physical Description
[2], xvi, [17]-118 pages ; 13 cm.
Local Notes
Lillian Goldman Law Library rare copy bound in quarter sheep over wooden boards, which were previously covered in paper.
Notes
"Price twenty cents."
"Phaeton junior, or, The gig demolished," a poem by Dr. Aikin: pages 112-118.
Signatures: A²( -A₁)B-E¹²F⁸G⁴( -G4).
Cf. Osborne Coll., page 270.
Illustrated tailpieces.
Attributed to Richard Johnson in Weedon, M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the succesors to John Newbery. The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 50.
Summary
"This, says Dr. Aikin, is a very pleasing and ingenious little Work, in which a Court of Justice is supposed to be instituted in a School, composed of the Scholars themselves, for the purpose of trying offenses committed at School."--Title page verso.
Variant and related titles
Phaeton junior, or The gig demolished.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 03, 2020
References
Evans, C. American bibliography, 31700.
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children’s books printed prior to 1821, 681.1.
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American children’s books, 229.
Subjects
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Juvenile Jurisprudence Collection (Yale Law Library)
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