economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered : in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of **** : with thirty-two elegant cuts, by A. Anderson, The economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered : in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of **** : with thirty-two elegant cuts, by A. Anderson
economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered : in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of **** : with thirty-two elegant cuts, by A. Anderson
The economy of human life : translated from an Indian manuscript, written by an ancient Bramin : to which is prefixed, an account of the manner in which the said manuscript was discovered : in a letter from an English gentleman, residing in China, to the Earl of **** : with thirty-two elegant cuts, by A. Anderson
Language:
English
Creator:
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
Contributor:
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870
Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of, 1694-1773
Hill, John, 1714?-1775
Sinclair Hamilton Collection of American Illustrated Books
Call number:
Hamilton 246s
Electronic Resource
Extent:
180 p. : ill. ; 14 cm.
Format:
Book
Description:
Authorship of part 1 also has been attributed to the Earl of Chesterfield, cf. Notes and queries, 1st ser., v. 10; of part 2 also to John Hill, cf. Dict. nat. biog.
Published in England as The oeconomy of human life.
Part the second has separate title-page: p. [91]
Publisher's booklist: p. [175]-180.
Prefatory letter to the Earl dated 1749.
Publisher:
Philadelphia : Published by Johnson & Warner, 1810
Subject:
Philadelphia. Johnson & Warner
Conduct of life
Maxims
Date:
1810
References:
Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 416
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 243
Author:
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764
Range label:
Logical
Binding note:
Original boards with leather back, and marbled papers.