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Small 8vo., 11 x 16 cm., full red cloth, gilt lettered and ruled, 300pp., 435pp., 2 columns. Earlier owner’s ink note loosely enclosed. A very attractive, clean tight copy. Burt’s was a New York publishing house from 1883 until 1937 founded by Albert Levi Burt. While working as a travelling salesman he had come to recognise the demand for inexpensive reference works. Burt’s later became known for specialising in inexpensive children’s and popular fiction.