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[SMART, Christopher (1722-1771 ed ?]. The Lilliputian Magazine: or, the young gentleman and lady's golden library. Being an attempt to mend the world, to render the society of man more amiable, and to establish the plainness, simplicity, virtue and wisdom of the Golden Age... London: printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, jun...at the corner of Ludgate-Street, who has no share in the late Mr. John Newbery's Books for Children. 1772.
12° in sixes (115 x 75mm). Pp. 133-144 editorial covenant and list of subscribers in Great Britain and Maryland. 11 etched and engraved copper-plates (lacks frontispiece ?) and 4 woodcuts in text, one signed J. Bell. 4 staves of music printed on pp.112 and 130. Dutch flowered paper over boards (carefully re-backed, with replaced free endpapers. Housed in a green cloth, flip-top box with decorated paper lining. Provenance: Freeman (inscription). Roscoe J 219(6), citing one other copy; A & M 19.
First published (abortively) as a magazine in 1751, the work is now known only as a compendium probably first published in 1752 when it had 12 engraved plates and a frontispiece. The plates used from edition to edition appear to vary slightly in number.
12° in sixes (115 x 75mm). Pp. 133-144 editorial covenant and list of subscribers in Great Britain and Maryland. 11 etched and engraved copper-plates (lacks frontispiece ?) and 4 woodcuts in text, one signed J. Bell. 4 staves of music printed on pp.112 and 130. Dutch flowered paper over boards (carefully re-backed, with replaced free endpapers. Housed in a green cloth, flip-top box with decorated paper lining. Provenance: Freeman (inscription). Roscoe J 219(6), citing one other copy; A & M 19.
First published (abortively) as a magazine in 1751, the work is now known only as a compendium probably first published in 1752 when it had 12 engraved plates and a frontispiece. The plates used from edition to edition appear to vary slightly in number.