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Early lessons, : in six volumes, /

Title
Early lessons, : in six volumes, / by Maria Edgeworth. Vol. I.--Containing Harry and Lucy, part. I. --II. The little dog Trusty. The orange man. The cherry orchard. Frank, part I.[-v. VI].
Author
Edgeworth, Maria, 1768-1849.
Publication
Philadelphia: : Robert Desilver, Walnut Street., 1823.

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Additional Authors
  • Desilver, Robert P.
  • Edgeworth, Richard Lovell, 1744-1817.
  • Maxwell, James.
Description
6 v. : ill., port.; 16 cm.
Subject
  • Children's stories
  • Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction
  • Education
  • Natural history
Note
  • "The first part of Harry and Lucy was written by me thirty-four years before Frank and Rosamond were written by my daughter."--Address to mothers, v. 3, p. vii, signed, "R.L.E." (i.e., Richard Lovell Edgeworth).
  • "Early lessons &c. by Maria Edgeworth. Pubd. by J. Maxwell."--title plate, v. 1.
  • Metal-engraved plates. Portrait of Maria Edgeworth, frontispiece plate, v. 3.
  • Pagination: vol. 1: 58, 54, [3], 2-48, 72 p., [1] leaf, [17] leaves of plates; v. 2: 106, 74, 58 p., [1] leaf, [8] leaves of plates; v. 3: xxviii, 62, 70, 96 p., [1] leaf, [5] leaves of plates; v. 4: 82, 81, [1], 99, [1] p., [1] leaf, [13] leaves of plates. Last page blank.
  • Imperfect: tops of title-pages cut away.
  • "Early lessons ... Vol. II.--Containing Frank part II. Rosamond, part I. Rosamond, part II."
  • "Early lessons ... Vol. III.--Containing Frank, part III. --IV. Rosamond, part III."
  • "Early lessons ... Vol. IV.--Containing Rosamond, part IV. Harry and Lucy part III. Harry and Lucy, part IV."
Indexed In (note)
  • Shoemaker
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library