Tom Thumb's play-book
Subtitle: to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Being a new and pleasant method to allure little ones in the first principles of learning.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 12250.
Publisher: Printed and sold by Kneeland and Adams, in Milk-Street.
Published: 1771
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 31
Work titles: Tom Thumb.
Notes: First and last leaves pasted to wrapper.

Not recorded by Evans, but filmed as part of the Early American imprints series in place of Evans 12250 ("Printed for J. Boyle"). "Apparently the imprint given by Evans was his assumption from an adv."--Shipton & Mooney. A copies of both the Kneeland and Adams and the Boyle imprints are recorded in Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, entries 71 and 72.

Not in Evans or Bristol.

Includes a Scripture catechism, graces, and prayers.

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Shipton & Mooney 12250

Welch, d'A.A.  Amer. children's books, 1318.4

Rosenbach, A.S.W.  Children's books, 71

Digital image available in the Readex/Newsbank Digital Evans series.

Microfiche. [New York : Readex Microprint, 1985] 11 x 15 cm. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 12250).