Accession number
PML 85671
Published
London : Printed for Ogilvy and Son; Vernor and Hood; J. Walker; Lackington, Allen, and Co. and Darton and Harvey, 1798.
Notes
A series of "lectures" delivered by the fictitious Tom Telescope, on the natural and physical sciences.
Original edition 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.
"Illustrated with copperplates and cuts."
At foot of title: Price one shilling and sixpence bound.
Frontispiece signed: C. Lisney [?] del et sculpt.
Advertisement for scientific instruments on p. [2] at end.
Original edition 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.
"Illustrated with copperplates and cuts."
At foot of title: Price one shilling and sixpence bound.
Frontispiece signed: C. Lisney [?] del et sculpt.
Advertisement for scientific instruments on p. [2] at end.
Description
[4], 137, [3] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings, engravings) ; 14 cm.
Binding
Brown calf.
Classification
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