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The Lilliputian magazine, or, The young gentleman and lady's golden library : being an attempt to mend the world, to render the society of man more amiable, and to establish the plainness, simplicity, virtue and wisdom of the Golden Age, so much celebrated by the poets and historians.

Accession number
PML 81225
Published
London : Printed for T. Carnan and F. Newbery, Jun. at number 6, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, but not for F. Newbery, at the Corner of Ludgate-Street, who has no share in the late Mr. John Newbery's books for children, 1777.
Credit line
Gift; Elisabeth Ball, 1965.
Notes
At foot of t.p.: Price one shilling.
Booklist on p. [1]-[3] at end.
Covenant and members of the Lilliputian Society, p. 138-149 (includes "A list of subscribers, from Maryland"--p. 147-149).
Illustration on p. 31 signed: Bewick; 6 others signed: TB.
Illustration on p. 69 signed: I. Bell.
Library's copy: wanting p. [i]-[ii] (Al; frontispiece), 45-46 (D5), 49-50 (E1), 109-110 (K1).
Misnumbering: p. 224 for 124.
Signatures: A-M⁶N⁴.
Variously attributed to John Newbery, Christopher Smart, and Oliver Goldsmith (Roscoe, S. Newbery, J219).
Description
vi, [7]-149, [3] p. : ill. (wood cuts) ; 12 cm
Provenance
From the C.T. Owen and Elisabeth Ball collections.
Summary
Stories, poems, songs, jests, epigrams, and riddles.
Binding
Brown calf, gilt.
Classification
Department