The Newtonian system of philosophy : adapted to the capacities of young gentlemen and ladies ... : being the substance of six lectures read to the Lilliputian Society, by Tom Telescope, A. M. / and collected and methodized for the benefit of the youth of these Kingdoms, by their old friend Mr. Newbery ... ; who has added [a] variety of copper-plate cuts to illustrate and confirm the doctrines advanced.

Accession number: 
PML 85536
Published: 
London : Printed for J. Newbery ... , 1761.
Description: 
[4], 140 p., [9] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings, engravings) ; 12 cm
Notes: 

Advertisements on p. 125-140.
Illustrations include wood-engravings printed on text pages, as well as engraved plates.
Listed in NCBEL (2.1020) with works that John Newbery "wrote, wholly or partly ... edited or materially influenced"; Cushing suggests it might have been the work of Oliver Goldsmith.
PML copy: wanting three leaves of plates (including frontispiece).

Binding: 
Marbled boards, beige linen backstrip.
Department: