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The new sphinx : an elegant collection of enigmas puzzles charades transpositions rebusses anagrams logogriphs conundrums &c. &c. : The whole selected from original sources, and forming a new series of that popular little work, "The sphinx" : embellished with an enigmatical frontispiece, containing fifty-four puzzles.

Thorp & Burch, publisher.; Gye and Balne, printer.
1820
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Title
The new sphinx : an elegant collection of enigmas puzzles charades transpositions rebusses anagrams logogriphs conundrums &c. &c. : The whole selected from original sources, and forming a new series of that popular little work, "The sphinx" : embellished with an enigmatical frontispiece, containing fifty-four puzzles.
Published
London : Published and sold wholesale by Thorp and Burch, (successors to Champante and Whitrow), Jewry-Street, Aldgate, and sold retail by all booksellers, [between 1820 and 1830?]
Printed
London : Printed by Gye and Balne, 38 Gracechurch-street
Description
143, [1] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates : illustrations ; 14 cm
Associated name
Thorp & Burch, publisher.
Gye and Balne, printer.
Note
Thorp & Burch were located at Jewry Street 1820-1834; Gye & Balne at Gracechurch Street circa 1808-1830.

Signatures: A-F¹².

Publisher's advertisements, page [1] at end.

"Price one shilling."

Explanation of the frontispiece, pages 132-133; Solutions, pages 134-143.
Genre/form
Publishers' advertisements.
Book prices.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England -- London.

Call number
Sh.Misc. 1002
Folger-specific note
Publisher's printed paper wrappers. Printed on wove paper. Check marks and X's in ink next to puzzles throughout. Misprinted puzzle number 272 corrected to 273 in ink (page 95). References to Shakespeare marked with paper slips: puzzle 196 (page 71) and 265 no.8 (page 93).
Folger accession
No case or accession number present

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