and the Disobedient Child_ Frontispiece
From "The Prodigal Daughter." Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5,
Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?]

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Page
_The Devil appears as a French Gentleman_ 26
From "The Prodigal Daughter." Sold at the Printing Office, No. 5,
Cornhill, Boston. [J. and J. Fleet, 1789?]

_Title-page from "The Child's New Play-thing"_ 44
Printed by J. Draper; J. Edwards in Boston [1750]. Now in the
New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations

_Title-page from "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"_ 47
Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the New
York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations

_A page from "A Little Pretty Pocket-Book"_ 49
Printed by Isaiah Thomas, Worcester, MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the New
York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations

_John Newbery's Advertisement of Children's Books_ 60
From the "Pennsylvania Gazette" of November 15, 1750

_Title-page of "The New Gift for Children"_ 70
Printed by Zechariah Fowle, Boston, 1762. Now in the Library of
the Historical Society of Pennsylvania

_Miss Fanny's Maid_ 74
Illustration from "The New Gift for Children," printed by Zechariah
Fowle, Boston, 1762. Now in the Library of the Historical Society
of Pennsylvania

_A page from a Catalogue of Children's Books printed by Isaiah
Thomas_ 106
From "The Picture Exhibition," Worcester, MDCCLXXXVIII

_Illustration of Riddle XIV_ 110
From "The Puzzling-Cap," printed by John Adams, Philadelphia, 1805

_Frontispiece from "The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes"_ 117
From one of _The First Worcester Edition_, printed by Isaiah
Thomas in MDCCLXXXVII. Now in the Library of the Historical
Society of Pennsylvania

_Sir Walter Raleigh and his Man_ 125
Copper-plate illustration from "Little Truths," printed in
Philadelphia by J. and J. Crukshank in 1800

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