Book of the World: a family miscellany for instruction and amusement.
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Link Singerman ID: supp1397
Year: 1852
Entry: Gaspey, Thomas, ed. Book of the World: a family miscellany for instruction and amusement. Philadelphia: Weik & Weick, [1852]-[53]. 2 vols.
Author/Editor: Gaspey, Thomas, ed
Location: Philadelphia, PA
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: Book of the World: a family miscellany for instruction and amusement.
Printer/Publisher: Weik & Weick
Language: English
Notes: "Diamond Cut Diamond": vol. 1, pp. 367-68 (a tale from the time of the Congress of Vienna in which a Jew swindles the buyer of an expensive diamond ring when a second ring, this one with a worthless paste diamond, is substituted). Vol. 2 has imprint: Philadelphia: John Weik.