The moral instructor, or, A collection of sentences, from the best authors, disposed in easy lessons for children
Subtitle: designed to make reading as pleasant and easy as possible, and at the same time, to convey some useful knowledge to tender minds, as a preservative against vice and folly, and an incentive to virtue
By: by John Pickburn, master of the grammar school, Wainfleet
Edition: 7th ed.
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Hellaby
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 70
Subjects: Readers (Primary); Conduct of life; Juvenile literature
Other titles: Collection of sentences, from the best authors, disposed in easy lessons for children; Pickburn's moral instructor
Notes: First and last leaves pasted-down to boards.

"First published in the year 1759 ..."--Advertisement (i.e., Preface), p. [5].

Woodcuts: illustrations, tail-piece.

Rare Book (Plimpton) copy: On cover: Reading made completely easy; or an introduction to the Holy Bible. Louth: Printed and sold by J. and J. Jackson, Market-Place, 1828.

Rare Book (HistChil) copy: On cover: Reading made completely easy; or an introduction to the Holy Bible. Louth: Printed and sold by J. and J. Jackson, Market-Place, [n.d.].

Rare Book (Plimpton and HistChil) copies: Bound in quarter brown leather with printed paper over boards.

Osborne Coll., p. 136

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.