Children's literature, English - Early works to 1800

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The chertsey instructor or, young student's easy and familiar introduction to the study of useful, instructive, and ornamental literature: being a selection of the beauties of all spelling-books, adapted to the ease and capacity of younger minds. By a lover of children.
Lover of childrenDate: M.DCC.XCII [1792]
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The Lilliputian library Or, Gulliver's museum. Containing, lectures on merality. Historical pieces, interesting fa[b]les. Diverting tales. M[ra]culous voyages. Surprising adventures. Remarkable lives. Poetical pieces. Comical jokes. Useful letters. The whole forming a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses. By Lilliputius Gulliver. The second edition. In ten volumes. Vol. I.
Date: 1702
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The Lilliputian masquerade . Occasioned by the conclusion of peace between those potent nations, the lilliputians and tommy thumbians. Behind our mask you'll something find to please and to improve the mind.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]
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The little wanderers; or The surprising history and miraculous adventures of two pretty orphans. Embellished with cuts
Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 4-1793.Date: [1790?]
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The Lilliputian magazine Or, The young gentleman and Lady's Golden Library. Being an attempt to mend the world, to render the society of man more amiable, and to establish the plainness, simplicity, virtue, and wisdom of the golden age, so much celebrated by the poets and historians.
Date: MDCCLXXXIII. [1783]