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The new pocket cyclopaedia : or, elements of useful knowledge, methodically arranged ; with lists of select books on every important subject of learning and science ; designed for the higher classes in schools, and for young persons in general.

Print Book, English, 1813
Second edition, with many important additions and corrections View all formats and editions
Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row., London, 1813
bookplates
[3], iv-xvi, 645, [3] pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm (12mo)
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Bookplate on upper pastedown reads: "From the Library of Anne Renier and F.G. Renier."
Colophon: "Printed (from p.264) by James Gillet, Crown-court, Flet-street, London."
Donated by Anne Renier and F.G. Renier
Edition binding. Quarter binding of brown paper with blue paper over boards. Paper label on spine with title, edition, price and date
Final three pages of publishers' advertisements
Initialled in ink "AR" (ie. Anne Renier) on lower flyleaf
Preface to the first edition, -p.[3]-vi. Advertisement to the second edition, -p.vii-viii
Price on paper label on spine: "Nine shilings, boards."
Spine title: "Millard's new pocket cyclopaedia."
Stipple-engraved frontispiece
Wove papers; duodecimo format. Deckle edges. Untrimmed edges