The junior-class-book, or, Reading lessons for every day of the year / by William Frederick Mylius.

Author
Mylius, William Frederick, 1776-1863 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Εdition
The third edition.
Published/​Created
London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, No. 41 Skinner-Street ... by B. McMillan, Bow Street, Covent Garden, 1813.
Description
xii, 328, 12 pages pages, 1 leaf of plates : illustrations (engraving) ; 18 cm

Details

Subject(s)
Illustrator
Engraver
Printer
Former owner
Publisher
Rare books genre
Notes
  • List of contents (with authors) on pages [v]-xii.
  • Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece, captioned "Ulysses obliges Circe to restore his companions to their shapes," signed by Corbould and Heath.
  • Cotsen copy: Inscribed on front free endpaper: "Elizabeth Kentley" (?).
Binding note
Contemporary full dark brown mottled sheep, decoratively gilt-ruled on both covers and gilt-tooled on paneled spine; gilt turn-ins.
Contents
A miscellany of "reading lessons for every day of the year," including selections by: Fenelon, Addison, Goldsmith, Pope, Thomson, Gay, and from Lamb's Shakespeare, the Arabian Nights, and Baldwin's Pantheon and History of Rome.
Source acquisition
Cotsen copy: Gift of Andrea Immel.
Other title(s)
  • Junior class-book
  • Reading lessons for every day of the year
  • Reading lessons
OCLC
1340487450
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