The Mother's remarks on a set of cuts for children. [Four lines of verse].
| Other author | Lovechild, Mrs., 1744-1813. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Philadelphia : Printed for Jacob Johnson, no. 147 Market Street. T.S. Manning, printer, no. 143 N. Third Street, 1803. |
| Description | 2 volumes ; 15 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition |
| Subjects |
| Series | Early American imprints. Second series no. 4688. ^A575643 |
| General note | Title to v. 2 varies slightly, with "Two or more syllables." added after "Part II." |
| General note | Welch suggests Lady Eleanor Fenn ("Mrs. Lovechild") as the author. |
| General note | Accompanied by 324 cuts on LIV plates, an "Advertisement" (8 p.), and 5 unnumbered cards. Card 1 is an alphabet "for cutting into single letters." Card 2 consists of lower case consonants, with one or two spaces after each, ruled into squares. Card 3 has lower case vowels and the letter y "to place after the consonants" on card 2. Card 4 is a "frame on which to place the moveable letters, for spelling words." Card 5 is a frame "for concealing the cuts till the names have been read." The set is housed in a wooden box (7 x 18 x 12 cm.) with hand-colored printed paper label: Douceurs. Published by J. Johnson no. 147 Market-Street. |
| General note | "A Dictionary, or, Index to a set of cuts for children" (1804) and booklets entitled "A List of nouns" (1804) and "The Book of nouns" (1804) belong with this or a similar set of cuts, but are not present in the item in hand. Cf. Advertisement. |
| General note | Plates XXXVII-LIV were also issued in a volume with remarks, as "The Father's gift" (1804). |
| General note | Pagination, vol. 1: viii, [1], 10-84 p.; v. 2: 84 p. |
| References | Shaw & Shoemaker 4688 |
| References | Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 288 |
| References | Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 909 |
| 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., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 4688). |
| Genre/form | Juvenile literature 1803. |
| Genre/form | Spellers. |
| Other title | Father's gift. |
| Other title | Dictionary or Index to a set of cuts for children. |
| Other title | List of nouns. |
| Other title | Book of nouns. |
| Other title | Douceurs. |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |