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  The Remarkable history of Tom Jones, a foundling.
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  Fielding, Henry, 1707-1754. History of Tom Jones, a foundling.
  Description:
  An adaptation for children of Fielding's The history of Tom Jones, a foundling. First and last leaves pasted to paper covers.
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  A Little pretty pocket-book, intended for the instruction and amusement of little Master Tommy, and pretty Miss Polly. : With two letters from Jack the Giant-Killer; as also a ball and pincushion; the use of which will infallibly make Tommy a good boy, and Polly a good girl. : To which is added, a little song-book, being a new attempt to teach children the use of the English alphabet, by way of diversion.
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  Unknown author
  Description:
  Signatures: [A]^8 B-H^8 ([A]1 recto, H7, H8 blank). Bookseller's advertisements, p. [123-124].
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  The holiday present: containing anecdotes of Mr. and Mrs. Jennet, and their little family ... : Interspersed with instructive and amusing stories and observations.
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  Pelham, M., 1755-1836.
  Description:
  Attributed by Welch to Dorothy Kilner, who often used the pseudonymns M.P. and Mary Pelham. Welch's attribution is based on an advertisement in "A course of lectures for Sunday evenings ..." London, [1783?].
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  Miscellanies, moral and instructive, in prose and verse; collected from various authors, for the use of schools, and improvement of young persons of both sexes. ; [Two lines from Pope]
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  Moore, Milcah Martha, 1740-1829, comp. and Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790.
  Description:
  The compiler is identified by Shipton & Mooney as Milcah Martha (Hill) Moore. Recommendation signed: B. Franklin. Bookseller's advertisements, p. [203-204].
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  Sacred dramas, chiefly intended for young persons: the subjects taken from the Bible. : To which are added: Reflections of King Hezekiah, and Sensibility, a poem. / By Hannah More. ; [Three lines from Cowley]
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  More, Hannah, 1745-1833. and Beaufort, Elizabeth, Duchess of, d. 1828, dedicatee.
  Description:
  Dedicated to the Duchess of Beaufort. Two states noted by Evans; one on fine and one on common paper. Bookseller's advertisements, p. 191-[192].
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  The juvenile biographer; containing the lives of little masters and misses; including a variety of good and bad characters. / By a little biographer.
  Date of publication:
  1787
  

  Author(s):

  Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 4-1793.
  Description:
  Fictitious biographies written to teach a moral. Attributed to Richard Johnson in Weedon, M.J.P. "Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery." The Library, 5th series, 4 (1949): 49. Signatures: [A]^8 B-D^8 [E-F]^8 ...
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