C. Blunt, optician, and mathematical instrument maker, (formerly of Cornhill) has removed to 38, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, London
Subtitle: where ... he continues to manufacture and carry on ...every branch of the profession, in which the well-known and highly reputable house of Nairne and Blunt, so long and eminently excelled
Publisher: C. Blunt
Published: 1816
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Optical instruments; Catalogs; Advertising; Optical trade
Notes: Caption title.

C. Blunt placed a similar advertisement in Vol. XIV, no. XXVII (1816) of John Murry's Quarterly review.

Each v. has armorial bookplate, and coat of arms on inserted leaf, of Sheffield Grace Esq. L.L.D, S.S.A.

Bound as no. 149 in v.1 of a 7-volume set of early 19th-century publisher's catalogs and prospectuses with binder's title "Bibliographical notices".

Each v. bound in contemporary half calf with marbled boards.
Table of contents: title: Descriptive list of improved spectacles, new opera glasses, and improved magic lanterns (p. [1]-[3]); title: List of new and original subjects, arranged, designed, and painted, and published exclusively by the author, C. Blunt, 38, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, for his improved magic lantern (p. [3]-[4]); title: Preparing for the press, A descriptive essay on the instrument vulgarly termed the magic lantern .. [and] A descriptive essay, on spectacles, and the aparatus used to assist imperfect vision in the human eye ... (p. [4]); title: Popular scientific works, sold by C. Blunt (p. [4]).