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Metamorphosis; or, A transformation of pictures : with poetical explanations, for the amusement of young persons.

Author/creator Sands, Benjamin
Other author/creatorPoupard, James engraver.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed and sold by J. Rakestraw, no. 256, North Third Street, 1818.
Description8 unnumbered folded pages : chiefly illustrations ; 15 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 44824. ^A575643
General noteChiefly illustrations, which are transformed from one figure to another by the various foldings, with accompanying text in twenty-one numbered stanzas of verse.
General note"B. Sands" in border ornament, p. [7]. Other editions have "by Benjamin Sands" on the title pages.
General noteIllustrations cut by James Poupard.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 44824
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. 44824).
Genre/formMetamorphic pictures 1818.
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1818.
Genre/formPoems 1818.

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