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    Instructive rambles in London, and the adjacent villages. Designed to amuse the mind, and improve the understanding of youth. By Elizabeth Helme. [Five lines of quotation]

    Helme, Elizabeth, -1816. | Date: 1799
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    The History of little King Pippin, with an account of the melancholy death of four naughty boys, who were devoured by wild beasts. And the wonderful delivery of Master Harry Harmless, by a Little White Horse.

    | Date: 1787
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    The young moralist, consisting of allegorical and entertaining essays, in prose and verse; compiled from various authors; Chiefly Designed to implant the Principles of Virtue and Morality in the Minds of Young Gentlemen and Ladies. - Adorned with Cuts, and a beautiful Frontispiece, elegantly Engraved by Page. Third edition, enlarged, by G. Wright, Esq; Author of Thoughts in younger Life.

    Wright, George, Esq. | Date: MDCCLXXXII. [1782]
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    The history of Sandford and Merton. Abridged from the original. Embellished with elegant plates. For the amusement and instruction of juvenile minds.

    Day, Thomas, 1748-1789. | Date: 1796
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    The looking-Glass for the mind; or, intellectual mirror: being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories, and interesting tales: chiefly translated from that much admired work, L'Ami des enfans. With seventy-four cuts, designed and engraved on wood, by I. Bewick.

    Berquin, M. (Arnaud), 1747-1791. | Date: 1800
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