Author: IMISON (John):
Title: The School of Arts; Or, An Introduction to Useful Knowledge, being a Compilation of real Experiments and Improvements, in several pleasing Branches of Science, on the following subjects, viz. Mechanics, Electricity.... A New Edition, with very considerable editions.
Description: London: Printed for the Author, and Sold by J. Murray..., [no date] [?1790]. Large 8vo (in 4s), 209 x 125 mms., pp. xvi], 319 [320 blank], [8], 176, with separate half-title and title-page for "Curious and Useful Miscellaneous Articles," 19 folding engraved plates, including frontispiece in first part (lacking plate 19 at page 297), 4 folding engraved plates in second part, contemporary calf, gilt spine, red leather label; fore-margin of title-page soiled, front joint cracked, top and base of spine chipped, corners worn, but a good copy John Imison (died 1788) was a clockmaker, mechanical engineer, and printer, and in the latter capacity printed some novels with his own woodcuts. The School of Arts was first published in 1785, a second edition in 1787, and another second edition in 1794. This "New Edition" appears to be a re-issue of the second edition, with a cancel title-page, or possibly with the first half-sheet impression reset. ESTC N21609 locates copies in Sir John Soanes's Museum; William and Mary, Columbia, Library Company of Philadelphia, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Smithsonian, and Delaware. W. Zachs, The First John Murray (1998).

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