Juvenile Lessons; Or the Child's First Reading Book

SMITH, J. K.

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Publication Info

Condition: Fair
Signed: No
Dust Jacket: No
Jacket Condition: n/a
Details:
83 p. 16 cm. 8 b&w illustrations and a title page vignette. Cloth spine with paper-covered boards. Worn, especially corners. Endpapers have numerous ink notations dating to 1840s. Paper spotted and damp stained. Ink marks top corner of p. 29. The author, Jonathan Kingsbury Smith, provides numerous moral lessons, including: The useful Boy, who would not tell a Lie; Kind Lucy; Do not hurt the pretty little Birds; The Idle Boy becomes Industrious; Happiness does not depend on Riches, etc. Other published works by J. & J. W. Prentiss listed on rear cover.