An address to subscribers to the Windsor and Eton public library and reading room. Delivered at the first general meeting of the subscribers held at the Christopher Inn, Eton, in Tuesday, 29th Jan, 1833. By ... President of the Institution. Second edition
by Herschel, J[ohn] F[rederick] W[illiam], Sir
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London: Smith Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill, 1834. 12mo, pp. 32; original printed blue wrappers; small ink stain at the bottom of the front wrappers, some dustiness, else very good. Ads for Smith, Elder publications on the back wrapper. Herschel (1792-1871), the great astronomer and mathematician, was also the president of the Windsor and Eton Public Library. Here, in his first lecture to the subscribers, Herschel seeks ways to "improve the standard of moral and intellectual culture in the mass of the people." Not common: OCLC locates 8 copies of the first edition of 1833, and only 2 copies of this second edition at the BL and Cambridge.
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- An address to subscribers to the Windsor and Eton public library and reading room. Delivered at the first general meeting of the subscribers held at the Christopher Inn, Eton, in Tuesday, 29th Jan, 1833. By ... President of the Institution. Second edition
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- Herschel, J[ohn] F[rederick] W[illiam], Sir
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- Smith Elder and Co., 65, Cornhill
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- London
- Date Published
- 1834
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