A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies

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Title: A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies A Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses
Author: Unknown

Release Date: January 9, 2007 [eBook #20301]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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Transcriber's Notes:
* This 15th edition of A MUSEUM FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES was published ca. 1799.
* There is an HTML version of this text, with the original illustrations. Certain characters that do not appear in the text can also be found there.
* Each page repeats the first word of the next page at the bottom right--this has not been reproduced in this text version.
* The book uses the long 's' in non-final positions--this is not in the character set used for this version of the text file (see utf-8 text file or html version), and the modern lower case 's' has been substituted in the ASCII and iso-8859-1 (Latin1) versions in order to make the text moreeasily searchable. A non-final double 's' is sometimes written with two long 's's, and sometimes with a long 's' followed by a short (or final) 's' (somewhat like the ? of German).
* 'st' and 'ct' are usually written with a ligature--this has not been preserved in the text; 'ae' but not 'oe' ligatures have been preserved, however, in the Latin1 version but not the ASCII version.
* Colons, semicolons, question marks, and brackets are usually surrounded by spaces--in this text, the modern convention has been followed.
* The book consistently uses '&c.' where we today use 'etc.'-- this has been preserved.
* The dimensions of the book are approx. 13? cm. by 9 cm., so each line contains 8-9 words on average. This means that the layout of the following text does not usually match that of the book.
* Compound words like "every body" are often written with a space in the middle--this has been preserved where it appears.
* Page numbers have been omitted.
* '[sic]' has been inserted at many places in the text to let the reader know that the preceding word or phrase appeared as such in the original. These appear in blue in the HTML version.
* A number of names are spelled differently from present-day usage, e.g. Anna Bullen (Anne Boleyn)--in most cases, these have not been marked.
* On one page, a letter is corrupted, and on the following line letters appear to be missing--these have been marked with a comment in square brackets.
* Certain characters in the book, e.g. signs of the zodiac, will not appear in this text, as they are not available in all type fonts--these will be indicated at the appropriate places in the text. The proper character can be found in the HTML version.
* One major point of confusion should be mentioned: In the section on the Seven Wonders of the World, what is usually described as the Lighthouse of Pharos appears to have been merged with the so-called Egyptian Labyrinth (described by Herodotus)--see the title and the description in the text. In the next section (the Pyramids of Egypt), there is a reference to a black marble head on the third pyramid--perhaps this represents some confusion with the Sphynx.

[Illustration: Title page]
[Illustration: Obverse of title page. It contains this line only: Printed by B.C. COLLINS, Canal, Salisbury.]
[Illustration: Owner's handwriting]
A MUSEUM FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES OR A Private Tutor FOR LITTLE MASTERS AND MISSES. Containing a Variety of useful Subjects; AND, IN PARTICULAR,
I. Directions for Reading with V. Table of Weights and Elegance and Propriety. Measures.
II. The ancient and present State of VI. The Seven Wonders of Great Britain; with a compendious the World. history of England.
III. An Account of the Solar System. VII. Prospect and Description of the burning Mountains.
IV. Historical and Geographical VIII. Dying Words and Behaviour Description of the several of great Men, when just Countries in the World; with the quitting the Stage of Manners, Customs and Habits of the Life; with many useful People. Particulars, all in a plain familiar way for Youth of both Sexes.
With Letters, Tales and Fables, for amusement and Instruction. ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS. THE FIFTEENTH EDITION, WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS.

London:
Printed for DARTON and HARVEY, Gracechurch-street, CROSBY and LETTERMAN, Stationers-Court, and E. NEWBERY, St. Paul's Church-yard; and B.C. COLLINS, Salisbury.

MUSEUM FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES.

NOTES AND POINTS
USED IN Writing and Printing.
Before I begin to lay down rules for reading, it will be necessary to