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NEARLY READY,
Cloth Gilt, Price Five Shillings, Elaborately and Profusely Illustrated by The BROTHERS DALZIEL, uniform with the Boy’s Book of Industrial Information.
OUTLINES OF CREATION. By Elisha Noyce.
The object of the Author is to give a simple, clear, and lucid description of the Universe under the following divisions:—
| The Sky. | The Earth. | The Vegetable Kingdom. |
| The Air. | The Waters. | The Animal Kingdom. |
London: Ward & Lock, 158, Fleet Street.
THE BOY’S BOOK
OF
INDUSTRIAL INFORMATION.
BY
ELISHA NOYCE.
ILLUSTRATED
WITH THREE HUNDRED AND SIXTY-FIVE ENGRAVINGS,
BY
THE BROTHERS DALZIEL.
LONDON:
WARD & LOCK, 158, FLEET STREET.
1858.
PREFACE.
In putting this work before the public, the Author has endeavoured to supply a clear and brief description of the materials, processes, and apparatus made use of in the various examples of industry and skill constantly before our eyes, so that the reader may acquire a knowledge of such things, and an interest in those, who, by their hard work and patient ingenuity, supply them; for every article and process can be made to have a value and an interest, in proportion to the amount of knowledge we possess respecting them.
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