The Philadelphia vocabulary, English and Latin put into a new method, proper to acquaint the learner with things as well as pure Latin words. Adorned with twenty-six pictures. For the use of schools. By James Greenwood, Author of the English grammar, and late Sur-master of St. Paul's School

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenwood, James
Other Authors: Carey, Mathew (Printer), Comenius, Johann Amos, Spotswood, William (Printer)
Format: eBook
Language:Multiple
Published: Philadelphia Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers 1787, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
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Collection: Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Description
Item Description:English Short Title Catalog, W27622. - Evans, 20398. - Reproduction of original from Library of Congress. - Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117. - This first American edition of the popular textbook is one of the earliest American illustrated children's books. It has the same preface, with additions, and practically the same text as Greenwood's "London vocabulary" which the Dictionary of national biography states was an abridgement of "Orbis pictura" by Jan. Amos Komensky
Physical Description:Online-Ressource (viii,123,[1]p) ill 12°