Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Best first book for children : much useful reading : being sullied and torn by children and schools before they can read, this book is intended to save unnecessary expence.

Accession number
PML 88010
Creator
Woolman, John.
Published
Wilmington : Printed and sold by Peter Brynberg, 1799.
Credit line
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes
Woolman, the celebrated Quaker writer of the Journal, was no longer alive when this book was published. (He died in 1772). The first edition may have been published in 1797.
Title page is cover. A.B.C's etc.
Possibly first edition. The only copy to survive (Evans; Rink, Printing in Delaware).
Description
12 p. ; 9 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Publisher's tan wrappers, printed in black. In a 1/4 green oasis and olive cloth folding box. By Julia P.Wightman. 1977.
Classification
Department