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The Pictorial Family Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travels: comprising Prominent Events in the History of the World, Biographies of Eminent Men, and Interesting Accounts of Distinguished Travelers. Illustrated with Three Hundred and Sixty Engravings.

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Singerman ID#supp0308

Frost, John. The Pictorial Family Encyclopedia of History, Biography and Travels: comprising Prominent Events in the History of the World, Biographies of Eminent Men, and Interesting Accounts of Distinguished Travelers. Illustrated with Three Hundred and Sixty Engravings. Auburn, [N.Y.] and Buffalo: Miller, Orton & Mulligan, 1854. viii, 648 p.

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"The Polish Jew Boy": pp. 329-35 (with accompanying illus.). Text, "The Polish Jew-Boy" is also in Chambers’ Home Book; or, Pocket Miscellany, containing a Choice Selection of Interesting and Instructive Reading for the Old and the Young (Boston: Gould and Lincoln, 1853), vol. 4, pp. 38-42 (without illus.). Copies: FTU, MH, ViU. Text also in vol. 4 of Chambers’s Pocket Miscellany (Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1854; secondary title page with vol. 7 and imprint of London: W. & R. Chambers, 1854), pp. 37-41 (without illus.). Copies: MiU, TxU. Later printings exist. The volume by Frost is also known as Frost’s Pictorial Family Museum (Auburn, [N.Y.]: Derby & Miller, 1853). Copies: DLC.