THE CHILD'S GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF USEFUL AND FAMILIAR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON EVERY-DAY SUBJECTS, ADAPTED FOR YOUNG PERSONS ... BY A LADY.
by [UMPHELBY, Fanny, 1788-1852] :
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1870. Forty-fourth edition. A quite extraordinary compilation for the nineteenth-century child, condensing into under 500 pages an encyclopaedic amount of information on all manner of topics. Conceived in the form of Socratic question-and-answer dialogue, we learn of everything from acorns to zinc - from just one opening at random, "What is goulard?", "What is benzoin?", "What is storax", "What is gum-guaiacum", "What forms the famous diamond cement?" - all confidently and succinctly answered. Originally published as "262 Questions and Answers" in 1825, the book rapidly became a standard text, much expanded through multiple editions until at least a sixty-third edition in 1913, the text initially augmented after the author's death by her nephew Robert Arthur Ward (1826-1898). Foolscap 12mo (139 x 88mm). (vi),474pp. Bound in a smart recent full tan calf, banded and tooled in blind; red label; marbled endpapers; a few faint signs of age and use, but a very good copy. Very occasional annotation and a number of pencil marks.
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- Bookseller
- Ash Rare Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 45781
- Title
- THE CHILD'S GUIDE TO KNOWLEDGE; BEING A COLLECTION OF USEFUL AND FAMILIAR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON EVERY-DAY SUBJECTS, ADAPTED FOR YOUNG PERSONS ... BY A LADY.
- Author
- [UMPHELBY, Fanny, 1788-1852] :
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London : Simpkin, Marshall & Co., 1870.
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Reference Book, Children, Binding
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