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The Child's book : [Four lines of text; two lines of uppercase alphabet; two lines of lower case alphabet and numerals].

Format Electronic and Book
Publication Info[Windsor, Vt.] : printed by P. Merrifield, Windsor, Vt., [between 1821 and 1837?]
Description10 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 11 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 19767. ^A575643
Contents The horse -- The lion -- George Washington -- Kite -- Top -- The catamount -- The tiger -- The Bible [in verse].
General noteCover title: A present. 'Tis a very good present, A nice little toy, For a sweet young girl, Or a brave little boy.
General notePreston Merrifield printed as an individual in Windsor, Vt. between 1818 and 1874. Merrifeld published other children's chapbooks in the 1820s. Text, layout, and format are similar to other children's chapbooks printed by Merrifield and bearing a wrapper imprint statement naming John Wilcox of Newport, N.H. as the publisher and 1837 as the issue date. Shaw & Shoemaker's American bibliography assigns an estimated publication date of 1810.
General notePrinted wrapper included in pagination.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 19767
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. 19767).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1821.
Genre/formPoems 1821.
Genre/formChapbooks 1821.
Genre/formGift books 1821.
Other titleA present.

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