• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Amusement for good children, by G.S.C. Or, An exhibition of comic pictures, / by Bob Sketch / by Bob Sketch
  • Contains: The monitor giving good advice -- The good and ill-natured man -- The ghost -- The prejudice of fashion -- Two belles, one of the past and the other of the present age -- The riding of two horses at a time -- Harlequin, Columbine and Pero -- John Gilpin and the clown -- For the amusement, of our little readers, we here introduce the facetious history of John Gilpin [By William Cowper; in verse] -- The dancing dogs -- The barber's shop -- The old apple woman -- The handsome bow of Master Robert Sketch..
  • Contributor: Sketch, Bob [Author]; Cowper, William [Other]; Sketch, Bob [Other]
  • Published: Baltimore: Printed & sold by Warner & Hanna, at the Bible and Heart Office, 1808
  • Published in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Issue: (Second edition.)
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text); ill; 17 cm
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Animal welfare Juvenile fiction ; Barbers Juvenile fiction ; Children's stories ; Circus Juvenile fiction ; Clowns Juvenile fiction ; Conduct of life Juvenile fiction ; Fashion Juvenile fiction ; Ghosts Juvenile fiction ; Older women Juvenile fiction ; Picture books for children ; Street vendors Juvenile fiction ; Theater Juvenile fiction ; Wit and humor, Juvenile
  • Origination:
  • Footnote: "May be had at Warner & Hanna's; corner of S. Gay & Market Sts. the following youthful and entertaining books ..."--advertisement, p. [52]
    Error in paging: p. 49 misnumbered 29
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 14352
    Title vignette has caption: Be merry and wise
    Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 143.2