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The school for children, or, A selection of instructive and entertaining tales : proper to form the heart of infancy to the hatred of vice, and the love of virtue

Title: The school for children, or, A selection of instructive and entertaining tales : proper to form the heart of infancy to the hatred of vice, and the love of virtue / From the French of Lombard de Langres. Interspersed with poetical pieces, written by the translator, Miss Stockdale, author of The Effusions of the heart, poems; and the translator of The Children's journal.
Author: Lombard de Langres, Vincent, approximately 1765-1830.
Publication: London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1800.

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Description

xii, 220, [8] p.; 18 cm.

Alternative Title

Selection of instructive and entertaining tales
Choix d'historiettes instructives et amusantes

Subject

Children > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction > Early works to 1800

Note

Signatures : [A]-L⁶.
Colophon : "S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn."
Publisher's advertisements : p. 220-[228].
First published in 1794 under the title: École des enfans, ou Choix d'historiettes instructives et amusantes.

Access (note)

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ESTC

Call Number

Pforz (Stockdale, M. School for children)

OCLC

63106590

Author

Lombard de Langres, Vincent, approximately 1765-1830.

Title

The school for children, or, A selection of instructive and entertaining tales : proper to form the heart of infancy to the hatred of vice, and the love of virtue / From the French of Lombard de Langres. Interspersed with poetical pieces, written by the translator, Miss Stockdale, author of The Effusions of the heart, poems; and the translator of The Children's journal.

Imprint

London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1800.

Edition

The second edition.

Indexed In:

ESTC T199293

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy : "Victor Perowne / 1912" (in ink on front free endpaper). -- Bound in later blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine titling.

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Added Author

Stockdale, Miss (Mary R.) Translator

Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814. Publisher

Gosnell, Samuel. Printer

Perowne, Victor. Former owner

Research Call Number

Pforz (Stockdale, M. School for children)

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