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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Greenwood, James, -1737
Corporate Author: Gale (Firm)
Other Authors: Carey, Mathew, 1760-1839 (Printer), Talbot, Christopher, active 1776-1789, Spotswood, William, 1753?-1805 (Printer), Comenius, Johann Amos, 1592-1670
Format: eBook
Language:Multiple languages
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Description
Item Description: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.
Reproduction of original from Library of Congress.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource (viii, 123, 1 unnumbered pages) : illustrations ;
Place of Publication:United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.