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. 151 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: List of new and improved mathematical, philosophical, and optical instruments (p. [1]-3); title: List of new and original subjects, arranged, designed, painted, and published by the author, C. Blunt ... (p. 3-4); title: Works written and lately published, or preparing for the press, by C Blunt. An essay on mechanical drawing ... [and] A descriptive catalogue of philosophical and mathematical instruments ... [and] A descriptive essay on spectacles ... [and] A detailed descriptive catalogue of the mathematical instruments used, or applicable to, the various branches of drawing ... [and] A descriptive essay on the instrument vulgarly termed the magic lantern ... (p. 4); title: Second-hand instruments of every sort are generally on sale ...