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The school of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge, being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science, on the following subjects, viz Mechanics, Electricity, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, Optics, Clock and Watch-making, and Astronomy. The miscellaneous articles contain the most approved Art of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Mezzotint Scraping, Aquatinta, Crayon Painting

Archive Print Item: Early Science 3 1796 IMI

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Type of record: Book

Title: The school of arts : or, An introduction to useful knowledge, being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science, on the following subjects, viz Mechanics, Electricity, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, Optics, Clock and Watch-making, and Astronomy. The miscellaneous articles contain the most approved Art of Drawing, Etching, Engraving, Mezzotint Scraping, Aquatinta, Crayon Painting

Other titles: Introduction to useful knowledge, being a compilation of real experiments and improvements, in several pleasing branches of science, on the following subjects, viz Mechanics, Electricity, Pneumatics, Hydrostatics and Hydraulics, Optics, Clock and Watch-making, and Astronomy

Level: Item

Classmark: Early Science 3 1796 IMI

Creator(s): Imison, John (1788)

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Lodge, John (1785-1823) (Engraver)

Publisher: Printed for J. Murray and S. Highley, No. 32, Fleet-Street

Publication city: London

Date(s): 1796

Language: English

Size and medium: xv, [1], 319, [1], [8], 176 pages, 24 preliminary leaves, plates

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/248416

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991015754689705181

Description

Edition statement appears above statement of responsibility on t.p.

In two parts: the second, "Curious and useful miscellaneous articles" has separate half-title and pagination.

Each part was issued in twenty parts.

Includes index.

Indexed in: ESTC

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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A071: Nineteenth-century half calf gold tooled on spine.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection A071: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: AM/2.

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