The youth's monthly visitor, or, Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge : containing recreations and amusements in natural history, chemistry, astronomy, natural history, and botany, philosophical questions, moral tales, rules of life, and practical wisdom, manners and customs of different nations, biography, anecdotes, poetry, &c. &c. : intended for the moral and literary improvement of both sexes : illustrated by coloured plates, and numerous wood engravings.

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Title(s):: The youth's monthly visitor, or, Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge : containing recreations and amusements in natural history, chemistry, astronomy, natural history, and botany, philosophical questions, moral tales, rules of life, and practical wisdom, manners and customs of different nations, biography, anecdotes, poetry, &c. &c. : intended for the moral and literary improvement of both sexes : illustrated by coloured plates, and numerous wood engravings.
Additional Title(s):: Instructive and entertaining miscellany of useful knowledge
Youth's monthly visitor
Published/Created:: London : Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster-Row, 1822-1823.
London: J. M'Creery, Tooks-Court, Chancery-Lane
Physical Description:: 3 volumes : illustrations (some colored) ; 19 cm
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
AP200 .Y68
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/5933507
Classification:: Periodicals
Notes:: Each volume has continuous pagination and signatures.
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 216
Description based on: Vol. I (February to July, 1822); title from title page.
Brit. union-cat. of periodicals, IV, 593.
With index at end of each volume.
Includes plates by Robert Cruikshank. See: A.S.W. Rosenbach, Widener cat., p. 224.
Latest volume consulted: Vol. II.
Individual issues have designations: vol. 1: Vol. I, no. I (February 1, 1822)-Vol. I, no. VI (July 1, 1822) - vol. 2: Vol. II, no. VII (August 1, 1822)-Vol. II, no. XII (January 1, 1823)
Reissue of The youth's monthly visitor. Originally published monthly from Feb. 1, 1822 to July 1, 1823.
Reissued under title: Youth's miscellany of knowledge and entertainment (London, 1823). See. BM 185:1040.
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Lacks volume 3. Bound in contemporary guilt-tooled calf.
Subject Terms:: Children's periodicals.
Periodicals -- England.
Form/Genre:: Periodicals -- Great Britain -- 19th century.
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1822-1823.
Wood engravings -- 1822-1823.
Contributors:: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856, illustrator.
McCreery, John, 1768–1832, printer.
Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, publisher.
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