[Rarebooks] fa: THE SELF-INSTRUCTOR or YOUNG MAN'S BEST COMPANION 1827 - Science, Art, Morals, &c.

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

E. Mackenzie: The Self-Instructor; or Young Man's Best Companion: being a New, Sure, and Easy Guide to Knowledge, Virtue and Happiness… To which are added, Instructions for a regular Course of Study; Rules for Preserving Health, and acquiring every Useful and Elegant Accomplishment. The whole comprising an invaluable Compendium of General Knowledge; selected, arranged, and compiled from the Best Authorities. Newcastle upon Tyne: Printed and Published by Mackenzie and Dent, 1827. Thick 8vo (21 cm) in early/period full calf; xx + 684 pp.; with thirteen copper-engraved plates (complete), in-text tables and diagrams.

Everything (almost) the ambitious young would-be gentleman needs to know in order to make his way in the world, bound between two covers. Subjects include: Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Electricity & Galvanism, Optics, Hydraulics, Mathematics, Metaphysics, Morals &  Religion, Grammar, Fine Arts, Heraldry, Gymnastics, Rules of Politeness, etc., etc. Binding with modest rubbing, bumps to the corners, front joint professionally repaired; frontispiece pulling slightly at the base of the gutter, mild toning to the contents with occasional light spotting and a few small stains, but generally quite clean and sound, firmly bound. Endpapers with early ownership signatures of John Wilkinson of York.