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.

People / Organizations

• Carey and ("printed by")
• James Greenwood (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by Carey and Co. and sold by all the booksellers, M,DCC,LXXXVII. [1787]

Publication year

1787-1787

ESTC No.

W27622

Grub Street ID

337737

Description

viii,123,[1]p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

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.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A? B-L? M? (M2 verso blank)