A Little Pretty Pocket-Book

A woodcut from *A Pretty Little Pocketbook* (1744), England, showing the first reference to baseball.

A Little Pretty Pocket-Book, intended for the Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly with Two Letters from Jack the Giant Killer is the title of a 1744 children's book by British publisher John Newbery.^[1]

^ Welsh, C. (1885). A Bookseller of the Last Century: Being Some Account of the Life of John Newbery, and of the Books He Published, with a Notice of the Later Newberys. Opie collection of children's literature ; 041:070. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to Newbery & Harris. Retrieved 24 December 2016.

[1] Welsh, C. (1885). A Bookseller of the Last Century: Being Some Account of the Life of John Newbery, and of the Books He Published, with a Notice of the Later Newberys. Opie collection of children's literature ; 041:070. Griffith, Farran, Okeden & Welsh, successors to Newbery & Harris. Retrieved 24 December 2016.

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