Gale's cabinet of knowledge, or, Miscellaneous recreations
Subtitle: containing moral and philosophical essays, propositions, natural, and metaphysical maxims, and observations on select subjects of general utility ... : to which are added a great number of originals, likewise an appendix, containing various propositions tending to prove light and heat two distinct beings, with some curious definitions in optics.
Contributors: McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress)
Edition: Second edition, considerably enlarged.
Publisher: Printed for James Wallis ...
Published: 1797
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
Subjects: Amusements -- Early works to 1800.; Literary recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Scientific recreations -- Early works to 1800.; Tricks -- Early works to 1800.
Other titles: Miscellaneous recreations.; Cabinet of knowledge.
Notes: Pref. signed: J. Gale.
"Illustrated with copper-plate engravings."
Bookseller's advertisements: p. [344-346].
Printed on wove paper.
Signatures: pi1 A-2E⁶ 2F⁶(-2F6) 2G⁶. A1, A2 signed 'A2', 'A3'.
With: Anderson, J.H. The fashionable science of parlour magic. London : Great Wizard of the North, [not before 1853] -- Rintoul, A.N. A guide to printing photographic portraits, draperies, backgrounds, &c., in watercolours. London : J. Barnard, [1856]. Bound together subsequent to publication.
Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.