The Children's miscellany
Subtitle: in which is included The history of little Jack; by Thomas Day, Esq. Author of The history of Sandford and Merton. : [Four lines from Dryden]
Edition: First American edition; embellished with thirty-five cuts and frontispieces.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 30190
Publisher: Printed and sold by William Spotswood.
Published: 1796
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Notes: Pages [1]-91 are typographically identical with: Day, Thomas. The history of little Jack. Boston : William Spotswood, 1795 (Evans 28539).

Frontispiece engraved by Edward C. Trenchard. Additional frontispiece at p. [278] engraved by J.G. Weston.

Error in paging: p. 79 misnumbered 97.

Signatures: [A]² B-U⁶ V⁶ W⁶ X-2C⁶ 2D⁴.

Evans 30190

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books 186

Russell, N. Cowper, lxi
Table of contents: title: The history of little Jack; title: The little queen; title: The natural history of the bee; title: Of the silkworm; title: Epistle to a friend, on his return from the army; title: The universal prayer [by Alexander Pope]; title: The history of Philip Quarll [by Peter Longueville]; title: A sketch of universal history - On Thomas Day Esq.; title: Gray's elegy. Written in a church-yard; title: The epitaph; title: The elephant; title: The lion; title: Of the two-horned rhinoceros; title: Of the humming-bird; title: The nightingale; title: The red-breast; title: The three brothers; title: The three sisters; title: The contrast; title: The diverting history of John Gilpin [by William Cowper]; title: Fatal effects of delay; title: The nosegay; title: Courage inspired by friendship; title: The duel; or the history of Emmeline and Jenny.; title: Bookseller's advertisement, p. [332].