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Forgotten Books of the American Nursery - A History of the Development of the American Story-Book by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
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[7-B] _Ibid._

[11-A] In the possession of the British Museum.

[14-A] Ford, _The New England Primer_, p. 38.

[14-B] _Ibid._

[19-A] Thomas, _History of Printing in America_, vol. iii, p. 145.

[19-B] _Ibid._, vol. i, p. 294.

[26-A] Sears, _American Literature_, p. 86.

[26-B] Although this appears to be the first advertisement of gilt
horn-books in Philadelphia papers, an inventory of the estate of Michael
Perry, a Boston bookseller, made in seventeen hundred, includes sixteen
dozen gilt horn-books.




CHAPTER II

1747-1767




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