Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Divided into lessons, by way of question and answer: Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The twentieth edition. And a table of the latitude...

ID 12734
Title Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Divided into lessons, by way of question and answer: Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The twentieth edition. And a table of the latitude...
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Signed Author Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy
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Firms
Self-published No
Volumes 1
Pagination xii, 154
Date of Publication 1797
Edition Statement The twentieth edition.
Edition Number 20
Date of First Publication
Imprint Printed for S. Johnston, and T. Newbury
Colophon
Copyright Statement
Location of Printing London GB
Format Unknown ()
Length (cm) 17
Width (cm) 10
Price (pound)
Price (shilling) 1
Price (pence) 6.0
Total Price (in pence) 18
Non-UK Price
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  • J. Foreman, Highgate Rd, London
Notes This editions "looks suspiciously like an attempt by rivals to forestall J.J. and EN's 20th edition" (Roscoe). Keeping Joseph Johnson and Elizabeth Newbery as publishers, although this edition may have been published by "rivals."
Hand-Verified No
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Lenglet du Fresnoy, Nicolas. Geography for Children: or, A Short and Easy Method of Teaching and Learning Geography. Designed principally for the use of schools. Divided into lessons, by way of question and answer: Translated from the French of Abbot Lenglet du Fresnoy, and now greatly augmented and improved throughout the whole. The twentieth edition. And a table of the latitude...The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 12734, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/12734. Accessed 2024-04-18. 

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