The Village orphan
Subtitle: a tale for youth. : To which is added, The basket-maker, an original fragment. : Ornamented with vignettes on wood
Contributors: Lockley, Fred, 1871-1958, bookseller; Johnson & Warner
Publisher: Published by Johnson and Warner, no. 147, Market Street. J. Bouvier, printer.
Published: 1810
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 136
Subjects: Children's stories; Conduct of life; Juvenile fiction; Orphans; Young women; Country life; Talebearing; Young men; Soldiers; Castles; Marriage; Providence and government of God; Poor
Notes: "This simple tale is intended to cherish in the minds of youth, those natural principles of rectitude and benevolence, which powerfully tend to promote the best interest of society, rather by the the influence of example arising from a natural unartificial development of incidents ... than by that of precept, or a studied display of those artificial characters in high life ..."--Advertisement, p. [3].

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