@article{631836,
      note = {'Tom Thumb' is a pseudonym.},
      author = {Thumb, Tom.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/631836},
      title = {Reading made quite easy and diverting. Containing  symbolical cuts for the alphabet, tables of words of one,  two, three and four syllables, with easy lessons from the  Scriptures, at the End of each Table, not exceeding the  Order of Syllables in the foregoing Tables; instructive  Fables and edifying Pieces of Poetry, with Songs, moral and  divine, from I. Watts. Methodically digested; and  calculated after the manner prescribed by the great Mr.  Locke, to gain the Attention of Children, who being cozened  or cheated into a Love of Learning, by the Humour of the  Narration, are almost insensibly led on to read the longest  Words with Ease and Pleasure. To which is added, The Church  Catechism, With several entertaining Stories, Proverbs,  moral Sayings, Riddles, &c. and curious alphabetical  Gimcraks. A new edition, new modelled, greatly enlarged and  improved: By Tom Thumb, a Lover of Children, W. Weild, and  others. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed, and sold by all the booksellers,},
      recid = {631836},
      pages = {pp.178 :},
      address = {London :},
      year = {1784},
}