The juvenile library including a complete course of instruction on every useful subject: particularly natural and experimental philosophy, moral philosophy, natural history, Biography, Geography and the Manners and Customs of Nations, Ancient and Modern Languages, English Law, Penmanship, Mathematics, and the Belles Lettres. With prize productions of young students; and a monthly distribution of prizes, Value Fifteen Guineas, and Upwards
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| Language: | English |
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London
printed by T. Gillet, Salisbury-Square, Fleet-Street, for R. Phillips. Sold by T. Hurst, 32, Paternoster Row, London; and by all other Booksellers in Great-Britain and Ireland
1800, 1800-1801
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | A collected issue, with general titlepage and index to each volume, of a monthly publication continued to 1803; title of monthly issues varies: no.1-5 have title 'The monthly preceptor or, juvenile library'; no.6-15 have title 'The juvenile library'; no.16-18 have title 'Juvenile Encyclopedia'. - English Short Title Catalog, N6811. - Price from imprint: price 6s. 6d. in Boards. - Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library. - The plate facing p.8 has a chimpanzee holding a cloth around his body, caption reads: 'Chimpanzee, 1. Ourang-outang, 2.'; a variant has the chimpanzee in an abbreviated loin cloth holding a piece of fruit, caption reads: '1. Chimpanzee. 2. Ourang-outang.' |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (2v.,plates) 12° |