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The automatical camera-obscura; exhibiting scenes from nature,delineated by an unerring pencil and preserved in an ancient port-folio: also events which have engaged the attention, excited the admiration and afforded instruction to the wise and good in every age. Vol.I [IV].

Accession number
PML 86367-86370
Creator
Towne, Thomas.
Published
London, Printed for Francis Westley, 1821-1823.
Credit line
Purchased on the elisabeth Ball Fund, 2001.
Notes
Author's name not on title page of vol. 1.
Title varies (vol. 2-4) ...scenes from nature, designed to convey to the juvenile mind the knowledge of some of the most striking events ...
Printed by J. Dennett, Leather Lane, Holborn (p. 201, vol. 1); B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street (vols. 2-4)
Volumes 2-4 dated 1823.
Engraved frontispiece, vol. 1, printed by Westley, dated 1821.
Publisher's advertisements, vol 1, p. [202-3], vol. 4, p. [251].
Description
4 v., 1 leaf plates : ill. (front.) ; 15 cm
Binding
1/4 green morocco, marbled boards.
Classification
Department