A new guide to the English tongue [electronic resource] : in five parts. ... The whole, being recommended by several clergymen and eminent schoolmasters, as the most useful performance, for the instruction of youth, is designed for the use of schools in Great Britain, Ireland, and America. By Thomas Dilworth, Author of the Schoolmasters assistant; Young book-keeper's assistant, &c. &c.

Philadelphia : Printed & sold by Thomas & William Bradford, wholesale and retail booksellers and stationers, no. 8, South-Front Street, [1795?]

United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.

English

[4], 156 p. : ill. (woodcuts), 1 port. ; 12⁰.

In this impression, there is a preliminary gathering of two leaves, bearing Dilworth's portrait an illustrated alphabet. The verso of the titlepage is blank.
With an engraved frontispiece portrait of Dilworth, bearing the statement at head: "Bradford's edition".
Includes 12 select fables, each with a woodcut illustration.
At head of portrait: "Bradford's edition".
One of several impressions probably printed between 1795 and 1810.
Evans 11634 is dated 1770? and Evans 25399 is dated 1793. Both dates seem too early.
Reproduction of original from British Library.

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Hildeburn, C.R. Pennsylvania, 2520
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 65
Alston, IV.451
English Short Title Catalog, W17524.

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