A New History of Great Britain; from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time: Exhibiting to the Minds of Youth a variety of Instructive and Pleasing Information, Adapted to the Capacities of young People of both Sexes: on a Plan nearly similar to that of Dr Henry. The Fourth Edition, Corrected by the Author, and adorned with Plates. The whole calculated to operate as Moral Lessons, while it contains every leading Trait of the History of England.
A New History of Great Britain; from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time: Exhibiting to the Minds of Youth a variety of Instructive and Pleasing Information, Adapted to the Capacities of young People of both Sexes: on a Plan nearly similar to that of Dr Henry. The Fourth Edition, Corrected by the Author, and adorned with Plates. The whole calculated to operate as Moral Lessons, while it contains every leading Trait of the History of England.
A New History of Great Britain; from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time: Exhibiting to the Minds of Youth a variety of Instructive and Pleasing Information, Adapted to the Capacities of young People of both Sexes: on a Plan nearly similar to that of Dr Henry. The Fourth Edition, Corrected by the Author, and adorned with Plates. The whole calculated to operate as Moral Lessons, while it contains every leading Trait of the History of England.

A New History of Great Britain; from The Invasion of Julius Caesar to the Present Time: Exhibiting to the Minds of Youth a variety of Instructive and Pleasing Information, Adapted to the Capacities of young People of both Sexes: on a Plan nearly similar to that of Dr Henry. The Fourth Edition, Corrected by the Author, and adorned with Plates. The whole calculated to operate as Moral Lessons, while it contains every leading Trait of the History of England.

  • Adams, John
  • London: Printed for C. Law [et al] 1812

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12mo, pp. [xii], 347, [1, ads] + frontispiece and 5 woodcut plates. Contemporary marbled sheep, spine divided by gilt rules. A touch of spotting, endpapers foxed. Sometime neatly rebacked preserving earlier spine, hinges relined with tissue, some wear to extremities.

Notes

This juvenile history was published in 1802, while the first illustrated edition was the 1812 third; further editions followed through into the 1820s. All are now rather scarce, with this fourth edition recorded at BL only in Library Hub.

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