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[Library for Youth], London: Printed for J. Wallis by J. Cundee or T. Gillet, 1801. 10 volumes, 92 x 53mm., 10 wood-engraved frontispieces, 2 hand-coloured, hand-coloured oval portraits, contemporary vari-coloured paper-backed boards with original oval frame title laid down on 9 vols. (spines crudely sewn and joints rubbed, 3 volumes with tears to spines).
The Library for Youth contains the following volumes: "Mythology", "Botany", "Arithmetick", "Grammar and Letters", "Lives of British Heroes", "The History of England", "Natural History", "Moral Tales", "Geography and Astronomy", and "Scripture History". All volumes apart from "Scripture History" are listed in the advertisment leaf at the end of the "Mythology" volume. Spielmann 379; not in Gumuchian or Osborne. (10)
The Library for Youth contains the following volumes: "Mythology", "Botany", "Arithmetick", "Grammar and Letters", "Lives of British Heroes", "The History of England", "Natural History", "Moral Tales", "Geography and Astronomy", and "Scripture History". All volumes apart from "Scripture History" are listed in the advertisment leaf at the end of the "Mythology" volume. Spielmann 379; not in Gumuchian or Osborne. (10)
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