Wisdom in miniature, or, The young gentleman and lady's pleasing instructor: being a collection of sentences, divine, moral, and historical, collected from the writings of many ingenious and learned authors, both antient and modern: intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes. By the editor of The school and family testament. The second edition.

ID 10865
Title Wisdom in miniature, or, The young gentleman and lady's pleasing instructor: being a collection of sentences, divine, moral, and historical, collected from the writings of many ingenious and learned authors, both antient and modern: intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes. By the editor of The school and family testament. The second edition.
Contributors
Signed Author By the editor of The school and family testament.
Pseudonym
Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination vi, 230
Date of Publication 1787
Edition Statement The second edition.
Edition Number 2
Date of First Publication 1785
Imprint Printed and sold by M. Luckman
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing Coventry GB
Format Trigesimo-secundo (32mo)
Length (cm) 10
Width (cm) 6
Price (pound)
Price (shilling)
Price (pence)
Total Price (in pence)
Non-UK Price
Genre
Sources
Shelfmarks
  • ESTC, T77108
  • Osborne catalogue, II:749
  • BL 1493.d.16.
Notes [1] leaf of plates (frontispiece) :1 ill.
First edition printed in 1785 by T. Luckman.
Hand-Verified Yes
Verified Yes
Attempted Verification No

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Brown, Joseph. Wisdom in miniature, or, The young gentleman and lady's pleasing instructor: being a collection of sentences, divine, moral, and historical, collected from the writings of many ingenious and learned authors, both antient and modern: intended not only for the use of schools, but as a pocket companion for the youth of both sexes. By the editor of The school and family testament. The second edition.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 10865, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/10865. Accessed 2024-11-05. 

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