A key to the impenetrable secret.
By: By Benjamin Sands
Contributors: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 49582
Publisher: Printed by Joseph Gales, Northampton Township, Bucks County.
Published: 1799
Place of publication: [Northampton, Pa.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Toy and movable books; Maxims
Other titles: Impenetrable secret
Notes: A puzzle book of moral maxims printed on facing pages printed in black and red. "Anyone ... may easily point out, and truly find which of these lines you did commit to mind; provided you declare on which red side that individual line may be descried."

A similar work, published under title "The impenetrable secret," is attributed to Horace Walpole in the British Museum Catalogue

The American Antiquarian Society copy bears an owner's inscription dated 1799. The only Joseph Gales of 18th-century typographic record (1761-1841) printed at Philadelphia between 1795 and 1799

Not in Evans or Bristol

Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2002-2004. Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. First series ; no. 49582)