The friendly instructer: Or, A companion for young masters and misses
Subtitle: In which their duty to God, and their parents, their carriage to superiors and inferiors, and several other very useful and instructive lessons are recommended, in plain and familiar dialogues
By: By a lady
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 44108
Publisher: Printed and sold by Lincoln & Edmands, no. 53, Cornhill, agents for the New England Tract Society. The charitable, resident in any part of the Union, who purchase books for distribution, will find their orders answered promptly, on the most liberal terms.
Published: 1818
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Children's stories; Conduct of life; Juvenile fiction; Religious education of children; Parent and child; Children and death; Social classes; Lincoln & Edmands
Work titles: Friendly instructor
Notes: "I have perused these dialogues with so much pleasure ... they were written by a lady with whose valuable character I have been acquainted many years; and who has been long employed in the education of children ..."--The recommendatory preface, p. [v], signed: P. Doddridge. Northampton, June 8, 1741.

Tentatively attributed to English religious writer Elizabeth Harrison.

Wood engraving, p. 48, signed: Dearborn [i.e., Nathaniel Dearborn] sc.

Pages [1] and [72] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.

"Gabriel sent to the Virgin Mary." "Christ's ascension."--pictures with captions, p. [71].

"Bible warehouse, and theological & miscellaneous bookstore."--advertisement, back cover. Advertisement features a wood engraving of the Lincoln Edmands Bookstore store front.

"Price, 12 cts. single--1,12 a doz.--8 dols. a hun."--at foot of title page.

Shaw & Shoemaker 44108

Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1958 ed.), 689 (2)

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.