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Preludes to knowledge, or, Amusing and instructive conversations on history, astronomy, geography, optics, and the division of time &c. &c. : also moral and entertaining stories
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Preludes to knowledge, or, Amusing and instructive conversations on history, astronomy, geography, optics, and the division of time &c. &c. : also moral and entertaining stories

DateBetween 1838 and 1848
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Through the use of elevating and improving anecdotes, Mr. Mordaunt attempts to bring up his adopted and worldly niece and nephew to be as well-behaved and informed as his motherless son and daughter.

"London : Printed by W.J. Sears, 3 & 4, Ivy Lane Paternoster Row."--title-page verso.
First published by Jones in 1803.
Illustrated with six plates and a frontispiece which is engraved by J.W. Cook after Robert Farrier and bears: "Pubd. by R. Ackermann & Co. London."

Undated. Date inferred from publisher's and printer's years of activity at addresses, see P.A.H. Brown London publishers and printers p. 109 and 172.
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    Hardcover books
    DimensionsCover size: 15 cm x 9.5 cm (5 7/8 in. x 3 3/4 in.)
    Language
      CollectionOsborne Collection of Early Children's Books
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object Number37131048605299D
      Catalogue Record for Print Book https://www.torontopubliclibrary.ca/detail.jsp?Ntt=2205477
      General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
      General knowledge made easy, or, The childs first step : to mechanics, mineralogy, agriculture. sculpture, architecture, anatomy, botany, pharmacy, chemistry, painting, drawing, mythology, commerce, algebra, electricity, astronomy, navigation, biography, logic, philosophy, poetry, religion, geometry, rhetoric, mathematics, optics, jurisprudence, arithmetic : also easy descriptions of clouds -- rain -- snow -- dew -- hail -- tides -- earthquakes -- thunder -- lightning -- &c. &c
      Carvalho, David
      1830
      Maternal instruction, or, Family conversations, on moral and entertaining subjects : interspersed with history, biography, and original stories : designed for the perusal of youth
      Maternal instruction, or, Family conversations, on moral and entertaining subjects : interspersed with history, biography, and original stories : designed for the perusal of youth
      Helme, Elizabeth, -1814?
      1807
      Guy's general school question book : in which each question, in a regular series, is followed by its appropriate answer; not only in ancient and modern history, in which the whole is arranged in chronological order, but also in biography, geography, astronomy, heathen mythology, classical phraseology, and a great and interesting variety of miscellaneous subjects: the whole tending to enlarge the boundaries of juvenile knowledge by increasing its stores; and thus, by blending such a course of general information with sound classical or liberal learning, to raise a better superstructure of school education
      Guy's general school question book : in which each question, in a regular series, is followed by its appropriate answer; not only in ancient and modern history, in which the whole is arranged in chronological order, but also in biography, geography, astronomy, heathen mythology, classical phraseology, and a great and interesting variety of miscellaneous subjects: the whole tending to enlarge the boundaries of juvenile knowledge by increasing its stores; and thus, by blending such a course of general information with sound classical or liberal learning, to raise a better superstructure of school education
      Baldwin & Cradock
      1830
      Amusing and instructive conversations for children of five years
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      Dyde, William
      1800
      The little emigrant : a tale, interspersed with amusing anecdotes and instructive conversations : designed for the perusal of youth
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      Peacock, Lucy, active 1785-1816
      1826
      Summer rambles, or, Conversations, instructive & entertaining : for the use of children : dedicated (by permission) to Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
      Summer rambles, or, Conversations, instructive & entertaining : for the use of children : dedicated (by permission) to Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
      Semple, Elizabeth, active 1804-1816
      1801
      Summer rambles, or, Conversations, instructive & entertaining : for the use of children : dedicated (by permission) to Her Royal Highness The Princess Charlotte of Wales ...
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      Semple, Elizabeth, active 1804-1816
      1801
      Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations on moral and entertaining subjects : calculated to improve young minds in the essential, as well as ornamental parts of female education
      Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations on moral and entertaining subjects : calculated to improve young minds in the essential, as well as ornamental parts of female education
      Charles Dilly
      1782
      The entertaining history of little Goody Goosecap : containing a variety of amusing and instructive adventures
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      Baldwin & Cradock
      1828
      Optics. Another visitor, Garry Derry, peers through an eyepiece which creates an optical illusion that a wooden bar is actually passing through anothe(...)
      Optics. Another visitor, Garry Derry, peers through an eyepiece which creates an optical illusion that a wooden bar is actually passing through anothe(...)
      Ross, Fred
      9/3/1969
      Scientific amusements for young people : comprising chemistry, crystallization, coloured fires, curious experiments, optics, camera obscura, microscope, kaleidoscope, magic lantern, electricity, galvanism, magnetism, aerostation, arithmetic, etc
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      Pepper, John Henry, 1821-1900
      1861
      The book of science : a familiar introduction to the principles of natural philosophy, adapted to the comprehension of young people, comprising mechanics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, acoustics, pyronomics, optics, electricity, galvanism, magnetism
      The book of science : a familiar introduction to the principles of natural philosophy, adapted to the comprehension of young people, comprising mechanics, hydraulics, hydrostatics, pneumatics, acoustics, pyronomics, optics, electricity, galvanism, magnetism
      Chapman and Hall
      1833