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Head-pieces; tail-pieces; initials.
Engraved frontispiece on verso facing t.p.
Includes publisher's advertisments at end, v. 1.
Includes directions to the binder at end, v. 2.
Dedication signed: R. Dodsley, and dated 1748.
By Robert Dodsley. --cf. Halkett & Laing.
Signatures: vol. 1: A⁸ b⁸ B-2D⁸ 2E⁶; vol. 2: pi1 B-2M⁸.
A collection of miscellaneous writings on reading, writing letters, arithmetic, history, ethics, etc., to which Dr. Johnson furnished the preface. --cf. DNB.
John Adams Library copy has bookplate: The trustees of the public library of the city of Boston.
John Adams Library copy has bookplate: Public library of the city of Charlestown 1870 Bequest of the late Otis Clapp, of Charlestown.
John Adams Library copy: minor annotations.
John Adams' signature on first leaf, v. 2: "John Adams."
John Adams Library copy inscribed on first leaf, v. 1: "Otis Clapp Charlestown."
John Adams LIbrary copy inscribed on t.p., v. 1: "Ellis Grays."
ESTC, N23347
Also available on microfilm. Woodbridge, CT : Primary Source Microfilm, an imprint of Gale Group, 2002. 1 reel ; 35 mm. Unit 353. (The Eighteenth Century ; reel 12346, no. 37).
John Adams Library copy transferred from the supervisors of the Temple and School Fund. Quincy, Mass., 1894.
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