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The Lilliputian library; or, Gulliver's museum : containing, lectures on morality, historical pieces, interesting fables, diverting tales, miraculous voyages, surprising adventures, remarkable lives, poetical pieces, comical jokes, useful letters. The whole forming a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses, whether in summer or winter, morning, noon, or evening

Title: The Lilliputian library; or, Gulliver's museum : containing, lectures on morality, historical pieces, interesting fables, diverting tales, miraculous voyages, surprising adventures, remarkable lives, poetical pieces, comical jokes, useful letters. The whole forming a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses, whether in summer or winter, morning, noon, or evening / By Lilliputius Gulliver, citizen of Utopia, and knight of the most noble order of human prudence. In ten volumes, price five shillings.
Author: Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793.
Publication: London : printed for W. Domville : and Byfield and Hawkesworth, [1779?]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 10	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1779 Johnson 11-16 v. 10	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 1	Text	Restricted use	*KH 1779 Johnson 11-16 v. 1	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328

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Description

10 v. : ill.; 11 cm. (12mo).

Alternative Title

Lilliputian library
Gulliver's museum

Subjects

Genre/Form

Juvenile literature – England – London – 1779.

Note

Each volume has a frontispiece, a collective title page, and a separate title page.
Lilliputius Gulliver = Richard Johnson, who compiled the work in 1778-79 for Henry Baldwin.
Vertical chain lines, format uncertain.

Indexed In (note)

Roscoe
ESTC

Provenance (note)

Inscriptions: v. 1: "Miss Primrose, The g" in ink on the upper free end leaf; "Masr. John Cooke, Bury," in ink on the lower free end leaf; v. 10: "Jno. Cooke"; "Miss Primrose. The gift of her Mama." in ink on recto of the frontispiece.

Binding (note)

Rebound with green paper boards and original multi-colored floral decorative paper laid over. Original printed paper labels on the upper covers of the volumes.

Contents

v. 1. Gulliver's lectures -- v. 2. A curious collection of voyages -- v. 3. Fables of the wise Aesop -- v. 4. Gulliver's tales: containing The renowned history of the white cat -- v. 5. The Lilliputian letter-writer -- v. 6: The poetical flower-basket -- v. 7. The merry companion -- v. 8. The Lilliputian biographer -- v. 9. The entertaining medley -- v. 10. Lilliputian fragments.

Call Number

*KH 1779 Johnson 11-16

OCLC

79568075

Author

Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 1734-1793.

Title

The Lilliputian library; or, Gulliver's museum : containing, lectures on morality, historical pieces, interesting fables, diverting tales, miraculous voyages, surprising adventures, remarkable lives, poetical pieces, comical jokes, useful letters. The whole forming a complete system of juvenile knowledge, for the amusement and improvement of all little masters and misses, whether in summer or winter, morning, noon, or evening / By Lilliputius Gulliver, citizen of Utopia, and knight of the most noble order of human prudence. In ten volumes, price five shillings.

Imprint

London : printed for W. Domville : and Byfield and Hawkesworth, [1779?]

Indexed In:

Roscoe J218

ESTC N2780

Local Note

Copy in *KH has vols. 1 and 10 only. Vols. 2-9 wanting.

Provenance

Inscriptions: v. 1: "Miss Primrose, The g" in ink on the upper free end leaf; "Masr. John Cooke, Bury," in ink on the lower free end leaf; v. 10: "Jno. Cooke"; "Miss Primrose. The gift of her Mama." in ink on recto of the frontispiece. NN

Binding

Rebound with green paper boards and original multi-colored floral decorative paper laid over. Original printed paper labels on the upper covers of the volumes. NN

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Added Author

Johnson, R. (Richard), 1733 or 4-1793.

Domville, W., active 1770-1775. Bookseller

Byfield and Hawkesworth. Bookseller

Children's Room Collection.

Research Call Number

*KH 1779 Johnson 11-16

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