Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
A description of a system of biography : with a catalogue of all the names inserted in it, and the dates annexed to them / By Joseph Priestley, LL.D. F.R.S.
Call Number
Lapidus 5.1061
Identifier
ark:/88435/dccf95jn66s
Publisher
Philadelphia : printed by Akerman & Hanncock, for Mathew Carey, 1803.
Language
English
Date Created
1803
Extent
[2], 62, [4] p., [1] folded leaves of plates, 22 cm. (8vo)
Provenance
Princeton copy 1 inscribed on front free endpaper 'William ... July 17th 1803.'
Source Acquisition
Princeton copy 1 Gift; Sidney Lapidus, Princeton Class of 1959; 2021.
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Notes
With a half-title.
Chart titled 'A Specimen of a Chart of Biography.' Signed: Shallus sc.
Possibly a salesman's sample.
Princeton copy 1 Lapidus copy does not have list of subscribers (4 p. at end) while the copy at the American Antiquarian Society does.

Discovery Information

Subject
Chronology, Historical—Charts, diagrams, etc
Biography
Classification
Chronologies

Physical Characteristics

File Count
79

Institutional Information

Collection
The Sid Lapidus '59 Collection on Liberty and the American Revolution
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/fa91cb8f-470d-40be-a3ad-beb74c94153e/manifest