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Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining, in prose : selected from the best modern authors, and disposed under proper heads, intended to assist in introducing young persons to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PN6012 .K6 1791
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English prose literature.
- Literature--Collections.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Collections.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lamborn, Robert H.
- Physical Description:
- xv pages, 9 unnumbered pages, 511 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 2 unnumbered pages, 524 pages ; 24 cm
- Other Title:
- Elegant extracts.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed for Messrs. Rivingtons [and 21 others], 1791.
- Notes:
- "It has been thought proper to insert a new Title Page, nearly in the middle, that the purchasers may have it in their option to bind it in one, or in two volumes, as they shall think it most convenient for use." --Preface.
- Added engr. t.p. to books 3-5 (524 p.) reads: Extracts, elegant, instructive, & entertaining, in prose, &c. Books third, fourth, & fifth.
- Signatures: A a B -2K chi1 b -2k 2l 2m
- Title vignettes, engraved.
- Running title: Elegant extracts.
- Edited by Vicesimus Knox.
- OCLC:
- 27414350
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