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. / By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School.
| Author/creator |
Greenwood, James, -1737 |
| Other author/creator | Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Orbis sensualium pictus English. |
| Format | Electronic and Book |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787] |
| Description | viii, 123 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 16 cm (12mo) |
| Supplemental Content | Evans Digital Edition |
| Subject(s) |
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| Series | Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20398. ^A478749 |
| General note | 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. |
| References | Evans 20398 |
| References | Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117 |
| Other forms | Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series. |
| Reproduction note | Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 20398). |
| Genre/form | Dictionaries. |
| Genre/form | Juvenile literature 1787. |
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