The History of insects [electronic resource] : [Two lines from Genesis].

Published:: New-York : Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, at the Juvenile Book-store, no. 357, Pearl-street, 1813.
Physical Description:: 2 unnumbered pages, 28 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations
Additional Creators:: Barbauld, Mrs. (Anna Letitia), 1743-1825

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Contents:

Elephant-beetle -- Grasshopper -- Cricket -- Locust -- Flea -- Louse -- Itch. Mite. Chego. Deathwatch -- Scorpion -- Ants -- Honey-bee -- Dragon fly -- Butterfly -- Spider -- [Silkworm].

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Preface, p. [3]-5, advocates the humane treatment of all creatures, "great or small."
Page [1], 1st count, and p. [30] are blank.
With a poem by Mrs. Barbauld on verso of title page.
"Samuel Wood informs the good little boys and girls ... if they will please to call at his Juvenile Book-store, ... it will be his pleasure to furnish them with a great variety of pretty little books, ... Besides many from Philadelphia, New-Haven, and elsewhere, he has twenty kinds of his own printing, and proposes to enlarge the number."--Advertisement, p. [29].
This title may also be available on microopaque as part of the collection Early American imprints, Second series (New York: Readex Microprint Corp., 1964- ).
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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. 28750).

Reviewed/Cited In:

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography 28750
Welch, D.A. Bibliography of American children's books printed prior to 1821, 544.5
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 475

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