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The economist of time, or, Golden rules for growing 'healthy, wealthy, and wise' : by economising and usefully employing that which, of all things, is the most valuable, and, at the same time, of all things, the least valued.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection BJ1571.A1 E26 1825
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Conduct of life.
- Success.
- Time management.
- Penn Provenance:
- Watts, Mary Ann (autograph) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 50 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 11 cm (18mo)
- Other Title:
- Golden rules for growing 'healthy, wealthy, and wise'
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed by and for William Cole, No. 10, Newgate Street, 1825.
- Notes:
- Half-title.
- "Printed by Hodgson & Co. No. 10, Newgate-street"--Colophon.
- "Appendix. The way to wealth, as clearly shewn in the preface of an old Pennsylvania almanack, entitled, "Poor Richard improved" (on pages 41-48) signed by Richard Saunders.
- "Advice to a young tradesman": pages 49-50.
- Engraved frontispiece entitled: Youth taking time by the forelock.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.
- RBC copy quarter bound in leather with paper-covered boards.
- RBC copy signed by Mary Ann Watts.
- OCLC:
- 27584768
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