Lectures at Home. Second Edition
by HACK (Maria):
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1841. 8vo, 170 x 103 mms., pp. xi [xii blank], 211 [212 colophon], engraved frontispiece of the Portland Vase, additional engraved title-page, full-page engraved plates ap pages 9, 77, 91, 167, 185, original cloth (soiled); edges dusty, slightly shaken in casing, but a fair to good copy, with the inscription "William Wallace Rooke/ January 17th/ 1843." on the recto of the engraved frontispiece. Maria Hack (née Barton, 1777 - 1844) was a prolific author of books for children. She published the above work, a history of glass and an introduction to optics, in 1834, as Lectures at Home. Discovery and Manufacture of Glass; Lenses and Mirrors; the Structure of the Eye. Copies of the 1834 edition located in BL, Bodleian, Wellcome, NLS, and St. Andrews; and there are several copies on the market. The only copy of the 1841 second edition, which appears not to have been reset from the first edition, is in the Bodleian. These figures are from online databases, but WorldCat states that there were "10 editions published between 1834 and 1841 in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide.
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- Bookseller
- John Price Antiquarian Books (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8705
- Title
- Lectures at Home. Second Edition
- Author
- HACK (Maria):
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- London: Harvey and Darton, Gracechurch Street, 1841
- Keywords
- Education optics prose
- Bookseller catalogs
- education;
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