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The sphinx; or, Agreeable companion for a winter's evening : being an elegant selection of enigmas, rebusses, anagrams, conundrums, charades, puzzles, &c. &c.
- Title
- The sphinx; or, Agreeable companion for a winter's evening : being an elegant selection of enigmas, rebusses, anagrams, conundrums, charades, puzzles, &c. &c.
- Publication
- London : Printed and sold wholesale by J. Nowill, 156, Cheapside, and retail by all booksellers, [between 1818 and 1820]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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 | Permit needed | Pforz (Sphinx) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Nowill, Joseph
- Description
- 144 pages, 1 folding leaf of plates : illustrated; 13 cm
- Alternative Title
- Agreeable companion for a winter's evening
- Subjects
- Note
- "Price one shilling."
- The first edition of The Sphinx was published by the firm Nowill & Burch, which went bankrupt in 1818; Joseph Nowill went bankrupt in 1820 (see BBTI).
- Illustration: Long-folding engraved frontispiece with 54 numbered rebuses, the explanations of which are on pages 128-129.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Call Number
- Pforz (Sphinx)
- OCLC
- 871208801
- Title
- The sphinx; or, Agreeable companion for a winter's evening : being an elegant selection of enigmas, rebusses, anagrams, conundrums, charades, puzzles, &c. &c.
- Imprint
- London : Printed and sold wholesale by J. Nowill, 156, Cheapside, and retail by all booksellers, [between 1818 and 1820]
- Edition
- Third edition, with improvements.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer copy: Bound in light brown morocco with gilt decorations and spine-titling, the rear cover extending to a flap which closes over the front cover with a metal clasp.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Nowill, Joseph, publisher.
- Research Call Number
- Pforz (Sphinx)