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Tom Thumb's play-book; to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak.

Title: Tom Thumb's play-book; to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Being a new and pleasant method to allure little ones in the first principles of learning.
Publication: [New York], F. G. Melcher, 1960.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KVM (Tom Thumb's play-book)	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1960 Tom 16-627	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

31, [1] p. illus.; 77 mm.

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Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – Massachusetts – Boston – 1760.
Juvenile literature – New York (State) – New York – 1960.

Note

Facsimile of an edition with the imprint: Boston, Printed for and sold by A. Barclay [approximately 1760].
Facsimile reproduction of the rare complete copy in the Library of the American Antiquarian Society, Worcester. 1200 copies printed by the Meriden Gravure Co.
Illustrated covers.
With the reproduction of the inscription on the verso of the original front cover: "Printed by I. Thomas when at 'prentice in 1764, for A. Barclay."

Indexed In (note)

Bibliographical citations for the original edition: Sabin 96137; Evans 10189; and Shipton and Mooney, II< 845, col. 1, item 19.

Binding (note)

Copy in *KH bound in patterned black and white printed wrappers.

Call Number

*KVM (Tom Thumb's play-book)

LCCN

61001806

OCLC

2321508

Title

Tom Thumb's play-book; to teach children their letters as soon as they can speak. Being a new and pleasant method to allure little ones in the first principles of learning.

Imprint

[New York], F. G. Melcher, 1960.

Indexed In:

Bibliographical citations for the original edition: Sabin 96137; Evans 10189; and Shipton and Mooney, II< 845, col. 1, item 19.

Binding

Copy in *KH bound in patterned black and white printed wrappers. NN

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Added Author

Melcher, Frederic Gershom, 1879-1963, publisher

Meriden Gravure Company, printer

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KVM (Tom Thumb's play-book)

*KH 1960 Tom 16-627

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