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Juvenile anecdotes, founded on facts : collected for the amusement of children
Juvenile anecdotes, founded on facts : collected for the amusement of children
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Juvenile anecdotes, founded on facts : collected for the amusement of children

Date1825
Format
Notes
"The cautious mother" tells of a mother who examined the most childish story-book before she permitted her children to read it. "She never scrupled to sacrifice the beauty of a new purchase by freely cutting out as many leaves as contained passages likely to give them false ideas or to corrupt their innocence."
A selection of anecdotes from the two-volume edition. Originally published in 1795 by Priscilla Wakefield, author of Mental improvement, Juvenile travellers, & etc.
DimensionsCover size: 14.5 cm x 9 cm (5 11/16 in. x 3 9/16 in.)
Extent
  • vi, 264 pages, 1 leaf of unpaginated plates (frontispiece)
Language
ProvenanceGift of Edgar Osborne in memory of Mabel Osborne.
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession Number37131053595849D