A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies / Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses - Unknown

E-text prepared by J. Paul Morrison

Transcriber's Notes:

This 15th edition of A MUSEUM FOR YOUNG GENTLEMEN AND LADIES was published ca. 1799.
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 the title page below, 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.
The dimensions of the book are approx. 13½ cm. by 9 cm., so each line contains 8-9 words on average. This means that the layout of the following text does not usually match that of the book.
Compound words like "every body" are often written with a space in the middle - this has been preserved where it appears.
Page numbers have been omitted.
'[sic]' has been inserted at many places in the text to let the reader know that the preceding word or phrase appeared as such in the original. These appear in blue in the HTML version.
A number of names are spelled differently from present-day usage, e.g. Anna Bullen (Anne Boleyn) - in most cases, these have not been marked.
On one page, a letter is corrupted, and on the following line letters appear to be missing - these have been marked with a comment in square brackets.
One major point of confusion should be mentioned: In the section on the Seven Wonders of the World, what is usually described as the Lighthouse of Pharos (shown in the woodcut) appears to have been merged with the so-called Egyptian Labyrinth (described by Herodotus) - see the title and the description in the text. In the next section (the Pyramids of Egypt), there is a reference to a black marble head on the third pyramid - perhaps this represents some confusion with the Sphynx.

[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.]

With Letters, Tales and Fables, for amuſement and Inſtruction.
ILLUSTRATED WITH CUTS.
THE FIFTEENTH EDITION,
WITH CONSIDERABLE ADDITIONS AND ALTERATIONS.