The youth's monthly visitor, or, Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge : containing recreations and amusements in natural history, chemistry, astronomy, natural history, and botany, philosophical questions, moral tales, rules of life, and practical wisdom, manners and customs of different nations, biography, anecdotes, poetry, &c. &c. : intended for the moral and literary improvement of both sexes : illustrated by coloured plates, and numerous wood engravings.
Alternate Title(s):
Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge
Published / Created:
London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-1823.London: J. M'Creery, Tooks-Court, Chancery-Lane
Physical Description:
3 volumes : illustrations (some colored) ; 19 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts AP200 .Y68Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Periodicals
Notes:
Each volume has continuous pagination and signatures.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 216Description based on: Vol. I (February to July, 1822); title from title page.Brit. union-cat. of periodicals, IV, 593.With index at end of each volume.Includes plates by Robert Cruikshank. See: A.S.W. Rosenbach, Widener cat., p. 224.Latest volume consulted: Vol. II.Individual issues have designations: vol. 1: Vol. I, no. I (February 1, 1822)-Vol. I, no. VI (July 1, 1822) - vol. 2: Vol. II, no. VII (August 1, 1822)-Vol. II, no. XII (January 1, 1823)Reissue of The youth's monthly visitor. Originally published monthly from Feb. 1, 1822 to July 1, 1823.Reissued under title: Youth's miscellany of knowledge and entertainment (London, 1823). See. BM 185:1040.BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Lacks volume 3. Bound in contemporary guilt-tooled calf.