C. Blunt, optician, and mathematical instrument maker, (formerly of Cornhill, and a successor to the old house of Nairne and Blunt, mathematical instrument makers to the King), 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.

Page [1] has a woodcut illustration of a man wearing spectacles (and looking in a mirror?).

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. 51 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: Spectacles; title: Descriptive list of improved spectacles, new opera glasses, and improved magic lanterns; title: Spectacles. Light spectacles for the ladies ...; title: New opera glasses; title: An improved magic lantern; title: List of new and original subjects, arranged, designed, painted, and published exclusively by the author, C. Blunt, 38, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden, for his improved magic lantern; title: Popular and scientific works, written, sold, or preparing for publication, by C. Blunt, optician ...