THE YOUNG MAN'S BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE

Categories: Children / Youth

Non-fiction

Reference

Science

Year: 1825

Date Details: Date taken from inside title-page; wrapping cover indicates 1824

Publisher: Printed for the Editor, No. 73 Chepaside ; J. Harris and Son, St. Paul's Churchyard ; also, R. Griffin & Co., Glasgow

Pagination: [vi], [1]-348p, [4]

Dimensions: 19.5 x 11.5 cm

City: London

Document Type: Book

Edition: Cover 'A NEW EDITION, ENLARGED, | With Treatise on Short-Hand, and a General Index.'

Language: English

Printer: Plumer and Brewis, Love Lane, Eastcheap

Marginalia: Front paste-down endpaper 'E. Meade | 1827'. Front free endpaper '£5.00'.

Advertisements: [i-ii] 'ADVERTISEMENT | TO THE PRESENT EDITION.' Backcover 'NEW WORKS | PUBLISHED BY THOMAS TEGG.'

Other Content: [iii-v] 'CONTENTS.'

Index: [4] 'INDEX.'

Binding: Brown, quarter paper. Front and back covers paper-covered boards. Front cover title-page from1824. Back cover advertisement 'NEW WORKS | PUBLISHED BY THOMAS TEGG.'

Edges: Trimmed

Notes:

Full title: THE YOUNG MAN'S BOOK OF KNOWLEDGE, CONTAINING A FAMILIAR VIEW OF THE IMPORTANCE OF RELIGION, THE WORKS OF NATURE, LOGIC, ELOQUENCE, THE PASSIONS, MATTER AND MOTION, MAGNETISM, MECHANICAL POWERS, HYDROSTATICS, HYDRAULICS, OPTICS, ACOUSTICS, ELECTRICITY, GALVANISM, GEOMETRY, GEOGRAPHY, ASTRONOMY, HISTORY, CHRONOLOGY, &C.