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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
Uniform Title
Youth's monthly visitor
Title
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.
Publication
London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-1823.
Manufacture
London: J. M'Creery, Tooks-Court, Chancery-Lane
Physical Description
3 volumes : illustrations (some colored) ; 19 cm
Frequency
Monthly
Extent
Vol. 1 (February to July, 1822)-
Ceased with: Vol. 3 (1823)
Numbering Peculiarities
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)
Local Notes
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Lacks volume 3. Bound in contemporary guilt-tooled calf.
Notes
Each volume has continuous pagination and signatures.
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.
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.
Variant and related titles
Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge
Other editions
Youth's miscellany of knowledge and entertainment
Youth's monthly visitor
Format
Journals & Newspapers
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 25, 2002
References
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 216
Brit. union-cat. of periodicals, IV, 593.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Periodicals - Great Britain - 19th century.
Aquatints - Hand-colored - 1822-1823.
Wood engravings - 1822-1823.
Also listed under
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, publisher.
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