1692 The Young-Students-Library, Containing Extracts and Abridgements of the Most Valuable Books Printed in England, and in the Foreign Journals

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Very Scarce

A very scarce first edition.

Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece by F.H. van Hove.

Edited by the bookseller and publisher John Dunton, this is an eclectic anthology intended as an educational resource for students receiving a moral or classical education. The volume gathers short treatises, essays, dialogues, and discourses designed to instil knowledge in its youthful audience.

Topics range from theology and philosophy to manners, history, and natural science. Many of the entries are abridged to be accessible to young readers.

With individual title page for second part.

With errors in pagination - as called for - throughout: pages 70, 71, 153 misprinted 66, 67, 159; page numbers 288-289 repeated; page numbers 317-320 omitted.

ESTC R35551

A2, a, [a]-[d]2, [e], A-3U2, [1], 4A-7D2. Collated, complete.

With an index to the rear.

Front free endpaper removed.

Among the works included are: 'The Art of Navigation' by Deschalles; 'Micrographia' by R. Hook, and 'A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist'.