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Children's stories, English - Early works to 1800

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    Gammer Gurton's good counsel book; or, Child's museum . Containing all that's rich, and rare, and nice, cook'd up for very little price; such things as children most delight in, when fond of reading and of writing; and none I'm sure will blame the cook, who read in Gammer Gurton's book. Adorned with cuts.

    | Date: 1795
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    The Children's miscellany In which is included the history of little Jack; by Thomas Day, Esq. author of The history of Sandford and Merton. A new edition, embellished with twenty-eight cuts, by Bewick and a frontispiece.

    | Date: 1797
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    Little stories for little folks, in easy lessons of one, two, and three syllables

    | Kilner, Dorothy 1755-1836. | Date: 1785
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    The paths of virtue delineated or, the history in miniature of the celebrated Pamela, Clarissa Harlowe, and Sir Charles Grandison.

    | Richardson, Samuel 1689-1761. | Date: 1773
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    The children's miscellany: in which is included The history of little Jack by Thomas Day, Esq. Author of the History of Sandford and Merton.

    | Date: 1790
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