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...

Format:

• Book

Series:

• Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Children's literature.

Physical Description:

2v.,plates ; 12⁰

Place of Publication:

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, 1800-01.

System Details:

• Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• text file

Notes:

• 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'.
• 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.'.
• Price from imprint: price 6s. 6d. in Boards.
• Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns
• Reproduction of original from Harvard University Houghton Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N6811.

Access Restriction:

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