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Wonders! : descriptive of some of the most remarkable of nature and art.
- Title
- Wonders! : descriptive of some of the most remarkable of nature and art.
- Publication
- London : John Harris, [1821].
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KH 1821 Wonders 11-410 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Children's Room Collection
- Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill.; 18 cm.
- Summary
- Sixteen natural or man-made wonders from around the world are pictured, and each is described in six lines of rhymed text.
- Series Statement
- Harris's list of 1s. 6d. books colour ; 21
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Juvenile literature – England – London – 1821.
- Note
- Title from cover.
- Imprint on cover: London : John Harris, corner of St. Paul's Church Yard. Imprint at foot of most leaves: London, Published July 1, 1821, by J. Harris & Son, corner of St. Pauls.
- Engraved throughout; printed sides of leaves facing each other.
- Hand-colored illustrations.
- Series statement from publisher's ad, p. [3] of cover.
- Provenance (note)
- Inscribed: in ink on recto of 1st leaf, "[scored through] Frederic Paull presented him on his sixth birth-day by his affectionate Brother William Prudeaux Paull-8th month 9th 1836." And right below, in ink, "Mary Anna Paull presented to her by her Brother Frederic Paull 1847."
- Binding (note)
- Bound in printed pale gray paper wrappers.
- Contents
- St. Michael's volcano -- Pyramids and Sphinx -- Giant's Causeway -- Palace and statue of Memnon -- Termites, ant-hills, and pyramids -- Ice mountains -- Great Wall of China -- St. Winifred's well -- Mausoleum of Hyder Ali -- Chapel of the Holy Sepulchre -- Stonehenge -- Pompey's Pillar, and Cleopatra's Needle -- Fingal's Cave -- Grotto of Antiparos -- Colossus at Rhodes -- Pont du Gard.
- Call Number
- *KH 1821 Wonders 11-410
- OCLC
- 192023477
- Title
- Wonders! : descriptive of some of the most remarkable of nature and art.
- Imprint
- London : John Harris, [1821].
- Series
- Harris's list of 1s. 6d. books colour ; 21
- Provenance
- Inscribed: in ink on recto of 1st leaf, "[scored through] Frederic Paull presented him on his sixth birth-day by his affectionate Brother William Prudeaux Paull-8th month 9th 1836." And right below, in ink, "Mary Anna Paull presented to her by her Brother Frederic Paull 1847."
- Binding
- Bound in printed pale gray paper wrappers.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Children's Room Collection
- Research Call Number
- *KH 1821 Wonders 11-410