A Pleasing companion for little girls and boys
Subtitle: blending instruction with amusement. : Being a selection of interesting stories, dialogues, fables and poetry. : Designed for the use of primary schools and domestic nurseries
By: By Jesse Torrey, Jun. ; [Four lines of prose by S. Adams]
Contributors: Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791; Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849; Aesop; Day, Thomas, 1748-1789; Taylor, Jane, 1783-1824; Grigg, John, 1792-1864; Johnson, Lawrence, 1801-1860; Grigg & Elliot
Edition: Twenty-fifth edition.
Publisher: Published and sold by John Grigg, no. 9, North Fourth Street, and sold by booksellers and country merchants generally. Stereotyped by L. Johnson.
Published: 1836
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Children's stories; Children's poetry
Other titles: Aesop's fables. English.
Notes: Includes selections from Berquin's Children's friend, Maria Edgeworth's Early lessons, Thomas Day's Sandford and Merton, Æsop's Fables, and Jane and Ann Taylor's Poems for infant minds. Paragraphs numbered.

Cover imprint varies: Philadelphia: published and sold by Grigg & Elliot, no. 9, North Fourth Street. 1836.

Copyright 1824 by Jesse Torrey, Jr.

Includes recommendations, [2] p. at end, and publisher's advertisement, lower cover. Among the recommendations is one by Thomas Jefferson.

Rare Book copy: Grigg and Elliot publisher's advertisement tipped in.

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