Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Stockdale, Miss (Mary R.)
2. Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814.
3. Gosnell, Samuel.

Description

1. xii, 220, [8] p.; 18 cm.

Alternative title

1. Selection of instructive and entertaining tales
2. Choix d'historiettes instructives et amusantes

Subject

1. Children > Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction > Early works to 1800

Call number

1. Pforz (Stockdale, M. School for children)

Note

1. Signatures : [A]-L⁶.
2. Colophon : "S. Gosnell, Printer, Little Queen Street, Holborn."
3. Publisher's advertisements : p. 220-[228].
4. First published in 1794 under the title: École des enfans, ou Choix d'historiettes instructives et amusantes.

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Indexed in (note)

1. ESTC

Author

1. Lombard de Langres, Vincent, approximately 1765-1830.

Title

1. The school for children, or, A selection of instructive and entertaining tales : proper to form the heart of infancy to the hatred of vice, and the love of virtue / From the French of Lombard de Langres. Interspersed with poetical pieces, written by the translator, Miss Stockdale, author of The Effusions of the heart, poems; and the translator of The Children's journal.

Imprint

1. London : Printed for John Stockdale, Piccadilly, 1800.

Edition

1. The second edition.

Indexed in:

1. ESTC T199293

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local note

1. Pforzheimer copy : "Victor Perowne / 1912" (in ink on front free endpaper). -- Bound in later blue pebble-grain cloth with gilt spine titling.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection

Added author

1. Stockdale, Miss (Mary R.) Translator
2. Stockdale, John, 1749?-1814. Publisher
3. Gosnell, Samuel. Printer
4. Perowne, Victor. Former owner

Research call number

1. Pforz (Stockdale, M. School for children)