Singerman ID#supp1397

Book of the World: a family miscellany for instruction and amusement.

Singerman Entry

Singerman ID#supp1397

Gaspey, Thomas, ed. Book of the World: a family miscellany for instruction and amusement. Philadelphia: Weik & Weick, [1852]-[53]. 2 vols.

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.