MARC Record from University of Toronto

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100 $aCornwallis, Caroline Frances,$d1786-1858.
245 13 $aAn exposition of vulgar and common errors adapted to the year of grace MDCCCXLV /$cby Thomas Brown Redivivus ...
246 14 $aExposition of vulgar & common errors adapted to the year of grace MDCCCXLV.
246 13 $aSmall books on great subjects :$bedited by a few well wishers to knowledge.
246 18 $aVIII. Vulgar errors adapted to MDCCCXLV
260 $aLondon :$bWilliam Pickering,$c1845$e([London] :$f[Printed by] C. Whittingham, Chiswick.)
300 $a[6], 132 p. ;$c18 cm.
440 0 $aSmall books on great subjects edited by a few well wishers to knowledge ;$vno. 8
500 $aThomas Brown Redivivus is possibly a pseudonym for Caroline Frances Cornwallis. Cf. British Library Public Catalogue.
500 $aPublisher's advertisements on p. [1-2] at beginning.
500 $aPublisher's device printed on t.p.
500 $aIncludes wood-engraved decorative head-pieces and tail-pieces.
505 0 $aTo the reader -- Of the causes of common errors -- Of vulgar errors in the way of common sayings -- Of genius -- Of some errors respecting the nature of evil spirits -- An enquiry if ignorance be requisite to innocence -- Of errors in grammar -- Of certain errors current in regard to disease and medicine -- Of the condition of society as touching the female sex.
590 $aMASS copy: Bound in green fine diaper-grain cloth with printed paper title label on upper cover and spine.$5CaOTMC
650 0 $aCommon fallacies$y19th century.
655 7 $aPublishers' cloth bindings$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1845.$2rbbin
655 7 $aPrinted paper labels$xSpecimens$zGreat Britain$y1845.$2rbbin
700 1 $aWhittingham, Charles,$d1795-1876
710 2 $aChiswick Press$e(printer)
949 $aMcLean D 0259$wASIS$c1$i5141285-1001$lRAREBOOKS$mMASSEY$rN$sY$tBOOK$u11/5/2004