Learning better than house and land
Subtitle: as exemplified in the history of Harry Johnson and Dick Hobson
By: By J. Carey, LL.D.
Contributors: Francis, David, 1779-1853, publisher; Bowen, Abel, 1790-1850, engraver; Munroe & Francis
Edition: From the third London edition, revised and improved.
Publisher: Published by Munroe & Francis, no. 4 Cornhill, (corner of Water-Street;) and David Francis, no. 90, Newbury-Street, (near Boylston Market.)
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 107
Subjects: Children's stories; Education; Young men; Juvenile fiction; Conduct of life; Social classes; Seafaring life; Funeral rites and ceremonies; Hospitality; Description and travel
Notes: Includes a description of hospitality extended to the author while traveling in Virginia, p. vi-ix.

Edition statement transposed; immediately follows title on title page.

The third London edition was published in 1813. Munroe & Francis was located at 4 Cornhill, Boston, from 1810 to 1814, and from 1816 to 1824; an 1824 4 Cornhill imprint is extant. David Francis was located at 90 Newbury St., Boston, between 1813 and 1823 or 1824.

Last page blank.

In leather binding.

Wood-engraved frontispiece depicting a burial service signed by Abel Bowen.

"Opinions of reviewers," p. [iii].

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