Original poems, for infant minds
Subtitle: Volume I[-II]
By: By several young persons. ; In two volumes. ; Ornamented with twenty elegant wood cuts. ; [Four lines from Watts] ;
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 51590
Publisher: Published by Solomon W. Conrad, no. 87, Market-Street. W. Brown, printer, 23 Church Alley.
Published: 1816
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's poetry; Conduct of life; Juvenile poetry; Birds; Seasons; Dolls; School attendance; Chimney sweeps; Hygiene; Parents; Animals; Natural theology
Notes: Chiefly by Jane and Ann Taylor; also includes poems by Rev. Isaac Taylor, Isaac Taylor, Jr., Adelaide O'Keeffe, and Bernard Barton. For attribution to individual poems, see Christina Duff Stewart, The Taylors of Ongar (1975), v. 1, p. 3, etc.

Vol. 1: iv, [1], 6-115, [5] p.; v. 2: 127, [5] p. Last page of v. 1 and v. 2 blank.

Shaw & Shoemaker 51590

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 444.11

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 543

Stewart, C.D. Taylors of Ongar, A1ccc

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