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.

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Author / Creator:Greenwood, James, -1737.
Imprint:Philadelphia : Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]
Description:viii,123,[1]p. : ill. ; 12⁰.
Language:Multiple
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10285870
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Other uniform titles:Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839,
Talbot, Christopher, active 1776-1789 printer.
Spotswood, William, 1753?-1805,
Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670. Orbis sensualium pictus. English.
Notes: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.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Evans, 20398
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 117
English Short Title Catalog, W27622.
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.