The History of insects
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 28750
Publisher: Printed and sold by Samuel Wood, at the Juvenile Book-store, no. 357, Pearl-street.
Published: 1813
Place of publication: New-York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 28
Subjects: Insects; Animal welfare; Picture books for children
Notes: Preface, p. [3]-5, advocates the humane treatment of all creatures, "great or small."

Page [1], 1st count, and p. [30] are blank.

With a poem by Mrs. Barbauld on verso of title page.

"Samuel Wood informs the good little boys and girls ... if they will please to call at his Juvenile Book-store, ... it will be his pleasure to furnish them with a great variety of pretty little books, ... Besides many from Philadelphia, New-Haven, and elsewhere, he has twenty kinds of his own printing, and proposes to enlarge the number."--Advertisement, p. [29].

Shaw & Shoemaker 28750

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 544.5

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 475

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Table of contents: title: Elephant-beetle; title: Grasshopper; title: Cricket; title: Locust; title: Flea; title: Louse; title: Itch. Mite. Chego. Deathwatch; title: Scorpion; title: Ants; title: Honey-bee; title: Dragon fly; title: Butterfly; title: Spider; title: [Silkworm].