Dame Partlet's farm
Subtitle: containing an account of the great riches she obtained by industry, the good life she led, and alas good reader! her sudden death; : to which is added, a hymn, written by Dame Partlet, just before her death, and an epitaph for her tomb stone.
Contributors: Hodson, J.; Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870, engraver.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 19912.
Publisher: Published and for sale by Johnson and Warner, no. 147, Market Street, and at their bookstore in Richmond, Virginia, and Lexington, Kentucky. J. Bouvier, printer.
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 59
Subjects: Children's stories.; Children's poetry.; Widows -- Juvenile poetry.; Literacy.; Poor -- Juvenile fiction.; Charity -- Juvenile fiction.; Country life -- Juvenile fiction.; May Day -- Juvenile fiction.; Funeral rites and ceremonies.
Genres: Juvenile poetry.; Juvenile fiction.
Notes: In prose and verse.

Cover title and imprint vary: Dame Partlet's farm: with an account of the good life she led. From the Juvenile Library [of Benjamin Warner], no. 171, Market Street, Philadelphia. 1819. Griggs & Co. printers.

Welch notes that a copy of a London edition bears the holograph note: This book was written by Dr. James Hodson.

Wood-engraving on p. 9 signed: A. [i.e., Alexander Anderson].

Page [60] blank; pasted to printed stiffened paper cover.

Not in Shaw & Shoemaker.

"At Johnson's store, in Market-Street, a sure reward, good children meet ..."--bookseller's advertisement, in verse, p. [3].

"Just published, and for sale at Benjamin Warner's bookstore ..."--advertisement, back cover.

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Welch, d'A.A.  Amer. children's books, 253.2

Rosenbach, A.S.W.  Children's books, 573

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 19912).