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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, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791
Other author/creatorThackara, James, 1767-1848 engraver.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for John Ormrod, no. 41, Chestnut-Street, by Ormrod & Conrad, 1798.
Description4 unnumbered pages, 271 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 17 cm (12mo)
Supplemental Content Evans Digital Edition
Uniform titleAmi des enfants. Selections. English
Series Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48367. ^A478749
General noteAttributed to Arnaud Berquin by Welch.
General noteFrontispiece engraved by James Thackara.
General noteBookseller's advertisement, p. [272].
References Bristol B10237
References Shipton & Mooney 48367
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 77.1
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., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 48367).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1798.
Genre/formAnthologies.
Genre/formBooksellers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.
Genre/formAdvertisements Stationery.

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