• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Innocent poetry
  • Contributor: Elliott, Mary [Author]; Belson, Elizabeth [Other]
  • Published: Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, no. 147, Market Street. William Brown, printer, no. 24, Church-Alley, 1811
  • Published in: Early American Imprints. Series II : Shaw/Shoemaker 1801-1819
  • Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text); ill; 15 cm
  • Language: English
  • Keywords: Children Religious life Juvenile poetry ; Children's poetry ; Children, Blind Juvenile poetry ; Christmas Juvenile poetry ; Conduct of life Juvenile poetry ; Day Juvenile poetry ; Sabbath Juvenile poetry ; Seasons Juvenile poetry ; Snowmen Juvenile poetry
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  • Footnote: "Just published, and for sale at Johnson & Warner's book-store ..."--advertisement, back cover
    "The following pages are chiefly the production of two young ladies, whose duty to an aged and infirm parent, induced them to assign the trifling profits arising therefrom to her assistance and precarious support."--Preface, p. [3], at beginning. Poems variously signed, "Mary," (i.e., Mary Belson Elliott) and "Eliza." (i.e., Elizabeth Belson). Also includes poetry by other authors including Isaac Watts
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    Moon, M. Elliott, 145
    Shaw & Shoemaker, 23094
    Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 341