The power of instruction, or, The guilty tongue
By: By the author of The last day of the week. ; [Two lines from Exod. xx. 7.].
Contributors: Loring, James, 1770-1850, publisher; Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873, engraver
Publisher: Published at James Loring's Sunday School Book-Store, 132 Washington-Street.
Published: 1824
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
Subjects: Conduct of life; Juvenile literature; Children; Sunday school literature; Children's stories; Swearing; Religious life; Christian life
Other titles: Guilty tongue.
Notes: Spine title: Guilty tongue.

By Eliza Cheap.

James Loring was located at 132 Washington St., Boston, between 1824 or 1825 and 1848. (A directory for 1824 could not be located.) Copy in hand bears a bookplate with an inscription dated 1835.

Frontispiece wood engraving signed: AH [i.e. Alonzo Hartwell?].

Rare Book copy: Pagination varies; table of contents bound after preface. Illegible autograph on upper flyleaf.

Shoemaker, R.H. Checklist of American imprints for 1820-1829, 0

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

Bound in quarter black leather with printed paper over pasteboard; upper cover with text from title page in ornamental borders; lower cover with publisher's advertisement; smooth spine with title in gilt; sewn on two supports.