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The royal guide : or, an easy introduction to reading English. Embellished with a great variety of cuts. Most humbly inscribed to his royal highness prince Edward.

Accession number
PML 88445
Published
London : Printed for E. Newbery, the corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard, [ca. 1800]
Credit line
Purchased on the Caroline Morgan Macomber Fund, 2013.
Notes
Frontispiece woodcut portrait of "his royal highness prince Edward."
Includes illustrated alphabets, fables, Madame d'Aulnoy's "The story of the white cat" and Goldsmith's "Elegy on the death of a mad dog."
Dated ca. 1800 because the short s is used throughout in contrast to other copies of the Elizabeth Newbery version using the long s: the Elisabeth Ball copy, now at the Lilly Library (ca. 1789?) and the Cotsen Children's Library copy (probably not before 1780).
Description
128 p. : ill (woodcuts) ; 12 cm.
Provenance
Inscriptions of Nancy Gregg and Betsy Gregg (Feb. 1802), Windham, New Hampshire.
Binding
Dutch floral boards, spine repaired.
Classification
Department