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ANIMAL ANALOGUES. Verses and Illustrations By Robert Williams Wood. -
THE YOUNG MAN'S COMPANION: Or, Arithmetick made Easie. With plain directions for a Young Man, to attain to Read and Write true English, and Short-Hand or Characters. And also very easie Rules for measuring Land, Globes, Steeples, Walls, Barrels, Timber, Stone, Boards, Glass, and the like, both by Arithmetick, and Gunter’s Line: The use of the Carpenter’s Plain Rule, and several Tables of Measuring, for those that have not learned Arithmetick. The use of Gunter's Quadrant, Dialling, Colouring within and without Doors; choice Rules for the Pruning of Fruit-Trees, Innoculating, and several ways of Grafting; as also Angling, and Experiments of the Honey-Bee. Choice experiments in physick and Chyrurgery, making several sorts of Wines, Cordials, Strong-Waters, Syrups, Oyls, Salts, Lozenges, Electuaries. With choice Presidents in the law, and Advice upon them. Many good Sayings of the Learned, in the School of Virtue, and very useful Coppies in Verse for a Writing-School. Together with many other useful things, to encourage Youth to the Love of Virtue, to please God. With an Alphabetical Table, for the ready finding of any Matte herein contained. Written in a plain Stile, whereby an ordinary Capacity may attain the same, without a Tutor. The fourth Edition, with very large Additions. By William Mather. -
![THE HISTORY OF ISAAC JENKINS, Sarah his Wife, and their three children, to which is added A Friendly Gift for Servants and Apprentices. Embellished with cuts. (Price Eighteen-Pence.) by [BEDDOES, Thomas]](https://images.vialibri.net/production/21/14633---height_450.JPG?v=1567155510)
THE HISTORY OF ISAAC JENKINS, Sarah his Wife, and their three children, to which is added A Friendly Gift for Servants and Apprentices. Embellished with cuts. (Price Eighteen-Pence.) -
![EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF NEATNESS AND ORDER. To which is prefixed an introduction. By Theresa Tidy. The Seventh edition. by [GRAHAM, Elizabeth S. ] TIDY, Theresa.](https://images.vialibri.net/production/21/14632---height_450.JPG?v=1567155520)
EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF NEATNESS AND ORDER. To which is prefixed an introduction. By Theresa Tidy. The Seventh edition. -
SKETCHES OF COUNTRY LIFE after Birket Foster. -
FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON DIRECT and Round the Moon. Translated by T. H. Linklater. -
FOUR TALES from Hans Andersen. A new Version of the First Four by R. P. KEIGWIN. Illustrated with woodcuts by Gwen Raverat. -
EVENING RECREATIONS, Pour Passer Le Tems, or An Original Collection of Enigmas, Charades, Riddles, Transpositions, &c. &c. for 1808. By Mrs Pilkington. -
THE ORIGIN, RISE, AND PROGRESS OF THE PAPER PEOPLE, for My Little friends, By Jane Williams, (YSGAFELL.) Author of “The Life of Carnhuanawc,” “Bêdd Gelert,” &c. With illustrations by Lady Hall of Llanover. -
52 STORIES OF CLASSIC HEROES with contributions by Hope Moncrieff, Mrs. Guy E. Lloyd, M. Mostyn Bird, H. P. Maskell, and the Editor. Edited by Francis Storr. With illustrations by Frank C. Papé. -
THE ANIMALS’ TRIP TO SEA. Being a True and Veracious History of the Eventful Voyage of the S.S. “Crocodile” from Nowhere in particular to Anywhere in general. Described by Clifton Bingham. Pictured by G. H. Thompson. -
OLD AUNT ELSPA’S ABC. We’ll soon learn to read, Then – how clever we’ll be. Imagined & Adorned by Joseph Crawhall. -
THE DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, Her Father & Family. New edition. -
THE BARBADOES GIRL. A Tale for young People. Fifth edition. -
THE HISTORY OF A MERCHANT’S WIDOW, and her Young Family. Fifth edition. -
THE HISTORY OF AN OFFICER’S WIDOW, and her Young Family. New edition. -
THE HISTORY OF A CLERGYMAN’S WIDOW, and her Young Family. By Mrs. Hofland. Seventh edition. -
A CHILD’S PRIMER OF NATURAL HISTORY. By Oliver Herford with Pictures by the Author. -
Nuova Raccolta di ciquanta motivi Pittoreschi a Costumi di Roma, incise all’ Acqua forte de Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano. -
THE AFFECTIONATE BROTHERS. A Tale. By Mrs. Holland. New edition.