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Food for the mind, or, A new riddle-book : compiled for the use of the great and little good boys and girls in England, Scotland, and Ireland / by John the Giant-Killer, Esq.

Accession number
PML 83569
Creator
John-the-Giant-Killer.
Published
York : Printed by Wilson, Spence, and Mawman, 1797.
Credit line
Gift; Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
At foot of t.p.: Price sixpence.
Booklist on p. [1] at end; this book listed under "Sixpenny books".
First published by John Newbery ca. 1757.
Includes: "The story of the good and naughty boy", p. [91]-95.
Most of the illustrations are copies of those in a 1778 Carnan & Newbery edition.
Description
vi, [7]-95, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 12 cm
Binding
Dutch floral boards in book-form case.
Classification
Department