Extracts, elegant, instructive, and entertaining, in prose, selected from the best modern authors, and disposed under proper heads
Subtitle: intended to assist in introducing young persons to an acquaintance with useful and ornamental knowledge.
Publisher: printed for Messrs. Rivingtons, Longman, Law, Dodsley, Whites, [and 19 others in London]
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Notes: Compiled by Vicesimus Knox.

The titlepages are engraved, that to vol. 2 reading 'Extracts, elegant, instructive, & entertaining, in prose, &c. Books third, fourth, & fifth'.

The drop-head title to each book reads: 'Elegant extracts, in prose'.

ESTCT142184.