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001 $ 25/77
003 $ UK-LoRAA
005 $ 20250128135821.8
041 0 # $a eng
044 # # $a uk
100 1 # $a Brougham and Vaux, Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron
245 1 0 $a Discourse of the objects, advantages, and pleasures of science.
250 # # $a Eighth edition, corrected.
260 # # $a London $b Baldwin and Cradock $c [1828]
300 # # $a 40 p.; $c 209 mm.
490 0 # $a Library of Useful Knowledge
500 # # $a Bound in original paper wrappers with advertisements on the wrappers. Originally published as the preliminary treatise to the Library of Useful Knowledge and 'Published under the superintendence of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge' (as indicated on the title-page on the front wrapper). The printer statement is found on the verso of the front wrapper: 'London: Printed by W. Clowes, Stamford Street.'
561 # # $a Inscription in ink in the upper right-hand corner of the front wrapper: 'Rich Westmac[ott]' (the end of the signature was lost when the pamphlet was bound in the volume).
561 # # $a Inscription in ink on the front wrapper by the title: 'by Lord Brough[am]' (the end of the name was lost whe the pamphlet was bound in the volume).
561 # # $a Part of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA presented by Mrs Rodwell in 1937 (see RA Annual Report for 1937, p. 55).
561 # # $a Bound (15) in vol. IV of a set of pamphlets from the library of Richard Westmacott RA.
563 # # $a In green quarter-bound leather; spine with two red leather labels, both lettered in gilt, the first as 'Miscellaneous' and the second as 'Vol. / IV'.
610 2 4 $a Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge
653 # # $a Science Popular works - Mathematics Popular works
700 1 # $a Clowes, William $e printer
700 1 # $a Rodwell $e donor
700 1 # $a Westmacott, Richard $e previous owner
700 1 # $a Westmacott, Richard $e previous owner
710 2 # $a Baldwin and Cradock (London) $e publisher/bookseller