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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

London: Printed for the Author, and sold by J. Murray, 1790. xv, [i blank], [xii half title, contents, erratas, 319, [i blank]pp; 176pp. Full original calf with a new polished calf spine and morocco label. Lacking 1 plate p220. and plate 2 incomplete. 20x13cms.. second edition. Hardback. V.g.. small 4to.

London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Murray..., [no date] [?1790]. Large 8vo (in 4s), 209 x 125 mms., pp. xvi], 319 [320 blank], [8], 176, with separate half-title and title-page for "Curious and Useful Miscellaneous Articles," 19 folding engraved plates, including frontispiece in first part (lacking plate 19 at page 297), 4 folding engraved plates in second part, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; fore-margin of title-page soiled, front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, but a good copy John Imison (died 1788) was a clockmaker, mechanical engineer, and printer, and in the latter capacity printed some novels with his own woodcuts. The School of Arts was first published in 1785, a second edition in 1787, and another second edition in 1794. This "New Edition" appears to be a re-issue of the second edition, with a cancel title-page, or possibly with the first half-sheet impression reset. ESTC N21609 locates copies in Sir John… Read More

London: Printed for The Author, 1790. 8vo. pp.xv + 2p errata + 319 + 2p. ads + 3 p. contents + 1p. plate placings. with 24 engraved plates.some folding. Scattered mild foxing throughout.dampstain at foot of the prelims. Bound in contemporary calf boards with expertly bound new spine and refurbished corners,

London: Printed for the author, and sold by J. Murray n.d. [c.1790], 1790. Second edition, two parts in one volume. 8vo in 4s. (215x127mm). pp. xv, [i], 319 [1bl], [2]; [viii], 112, 133-176, [1]. With twenty four folding engraved plates, errata leaf at the end of each part. The second part has a separate half-title. Light browning on the last few leaves and occasional foxing but a good copy with the contemporary bookplates of John Bell and Robert Pick, leather booklabel of Robert Honeyman (1979 sale, IV, 1741). Marbled boards, with some scuffing and wear, rebacked in calf, original red gilt label replaced. From the Robert Honeyman collection of Scientific Books. An encyclopaedia of scientific information and craft secrets, covering mechanics, electricity, pneumatics, optics, clock making and astronomy in the first part: the second part covers drawing, etching, aquatint, gilding, silvering lacquering, varnishing, casting in plaster, glues, stains, microscopic slides etc. Some of the sections on… Read More

London: Printed for the Author [n.d., ca. 1787] Stated second edition "With very considerable Additions." The first edition, published in 1785 and recorded in ESTC in five copies, has two sets of pagination ending on p. 264 and p. 124, so the present edition is clearly longer. ESTC lists three different "second editions, with very considerable additions" and the same imprint as the copy with similar but not identical collations, which it estimates to have been published in "1790?" It also lists a "third edition with considerable additions," with a dated title-page of 1787. Obviously, if the 1787 date on the title-page of the third edition is correct, the date of the second edition cannot be 1790. ESTC also lists an edition published in 1796. All of these editions are very scarce. Contemporary marbled boards, recently rebacked in calf with gilt-lettered red morocco spine label. Octavo. With second half-title for the second part. Illustrated with twenty-four engraved folding plates, including… Read More