Conversations on common things, or, Guide to knowledge
Subtitle: with questions : for the use of schools and families
By: by a teacher
Edition: Third edition, revised, corrected, and stereotyped.
Series: Juvenile classicks -- 11-12; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Juvenile classics -- 11-12.; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: Munroe and Francis
Published: 1830
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Subjects: Education
Other titles: Guide to knowledge
Notes: "I have felt the want, in common with several of my fellow teachers, of a book which might follow, or take the place of, Mrs. Trimmer's 'Knowledge of nature,' and other similar productions, that convey less information than is necessary for the proper understanding of the subjects."--Preface, pages [5]-7, dated at Boston, January, 1824. Includes questions for study.

By Dorothea Lynde Dix.

Vol. 1: 4, 120 pages; v. 2: 4, 121-288 pages.

Only illustrations are cover illustrations; signed by Alonzo Hartwell.

"Juvenile classicks [sic]. Munroe & Francis."--series title, upper cover. "Catalogue of the juvenile classics."--4 pages at front of each volume.

Reproduction of the original from the American Antiquarian Society.