The looking glass for the mind, or The juvenile friend
Subtitle: being a valuable collection of interesting and miscellaneous incidents, calculated to exhibit to young minds the happy effects of youthful innocence, and filial affection; : in prose and verse: designed to improve and amuse the rising generation. : Embellished wih an elegant frontispiece, and seventy-three cuts
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 27878
Publisher: Printed and sold by J. Bioren, no. 88, Chesnut-Street
Published: 1813
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 271
Subjects: Children's stories, French; Children's poetry; Conduct of life; Juvenile fiction
Work titles: Ami des enfans
Notes: Selection of prose and poetry translated from Arnaud Berquin's L'Ami des enfans. Possibly translated by Richard Johnson. Cf. Weedon, M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the successors of John Newbery." The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 37, 55-56.

Caption and running title: The looking-glass.

Title vignette includes the phrase: Reading improves the mind.

"John Bioren has for sale the following books ... "--p. [272].

Shaw & Shoemaker 27878

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 77.5

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.