THE INSTRUCTOR, OR, YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION

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Date Details: After 1812 (date noted on frontispiece)

Publisher: Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon

Pagination: [ii], [1]-593, [3] p.

Dimensions: 21.5 x 12.5 cm

Illustrations: Engravings

City: Liverpool

Document Type: Book

Edition: Title-page 'Stereotype Edition.'

Language: English

Printer: Nuttall, Fisher, and Dixon, Liverpool

Marginalia: Front free endpaper 'David Danhurst | Dundalth | £35 | Book | (?) | Lanckeshire'.

Other Content: [3] p. 'CONTENTS.'

Preface: [i-ii] 'PREFACE.'

Binding: Dark brown, full calf. SPINE: [gilt-tooled] '(line) | 'SELF | INSTRUCTOR' (on black calf with decorative border) | (line) | (line) | (line) | (line)'.

Edges: Trimmed

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Full title: THE INSTRUCTOR, OR, YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION ; BEING AN INTRODUCTION TO ALL THE VARIOUS BRANCHES OF USEFUL LEARNING AND KNOWLEDGE. CONTAINING WRITING, GRAMMAR, ARITHMETIC, ASTRONOMY, GEOGRAPHY, CHRONOLOGY, AND MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES. TO WHICH IS ADDED, THE ARTIST'S ASSISTANT ; COMPRISING THE ARTS OF DRAWING, PERSPECTIVE, ETCHING, ENGRAVING, MEZZOTINTO SCRAPING, PAINTING, DYEING, COLOURING OF MAPS, ETC. A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF NAVAL AND MILITARY AFFAIRS. ALSO, VARIOUS USEFUL MEDICINAL RECEIPTS.