The Mother's remarks on a set of cuts for children
Subtitle: Part I[-II] : [Four lines of verse]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 4688
Publisher: Printed for Jacob Johnson, no. 147 Market Street. T.S. Manning, printer, no. 143 N. Third Street.
Published: 1803
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Picture books for children; Spellers; Spelling games; Word recognition
Other titles: Father's gift.; Dictionary or Index to a set of cuts for children.; List of nouns.; Book of nouns.; Douceurs.
Notes: Title to v. 2 varies slightly, with "Two or more syllables." added after "Part II."

Welch suggests Lady Eleanor Fenn ("Mrs. Lovechild") as the author.

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.

"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.

Plates XXXVII-LIV were also issued in a volume with remarks, as "The Father's gift" (1804).

Pagination, vol. 1: viii, [1], 10-84 p.; v. 2: 84 p.

Shaw & Shoemaker 4688

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 288

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 909

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.