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 Elegance and Propriety.	V. Table of Weights and Meaſures.
II. The ancient and preſent State of Great Britain; with a compendious hiſtory of England.	VI. The Seven Wonders of the World.
III. An Account of the Solar Syſtem.	VII. Proſpect and Deſcription of the burning Mountains.
IV. Hiſtorical and Geographical Deſcription of the ſeveral Countries in the World; with the Manners, Cuſtoms and Habits of the People.	VIII. Dying Words and Behaviour of great Men, when juſt quitting the Stage of Life; with many uſeful Particulars, all in a plain familiar way for Youth of both Sexes. [This chapter should more properly be called "Letters, Tales and Fables".]

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.

Reverse of title page:
Printed by B.C. COLLINS, Canal, Saliſbury.

Front Page and Owner's Handwriting:
Image 1 Image 2

General Notes:

Each page repeats the first word of the next page at the bottom right - this has not been reproduced in this text version.
As can be seen on this page, the book uses the long 's' (ſ) in non-final positions - this has not been reproduced in this text version, as it would make the text less easily 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 ß of German).
'st' and 'ct' are usually written with a ligature - this has not been preserved in the text; 'ae' and 'oe' ligatures have been preserved, however.
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. Of course this is quite appropriate, as '&' is actually a stylized 'et'.
The dimensions of the book are approx. 13½ cm. by 9 cm., so each line contains 8-9 words on average, so the layout of the following text does not usually match that of the book.
In the book, a line ending in a period is sometimes padded with a long dash - these dashes are shown (using two hyphens), but for the above reason will often fall in the middle of a line.
Comments by the transcriber are enclosed in square brackets and appear in blue in the HTML version.