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LUPTON, Thomas. A Thousand Notable Things. London: Printed for J. Wilkie … and E. Eastone at Salisbury, 1776. Marbled boards over maroon leather spine in compartments with gilt title and date. Two leaves, [1], 2 – 252 + 8ll alphabetical table. 8vo. Chips at spine foot, a few trifling internal spots, else clean, tight, and bright. Toole Stott 449.A wide-ranging work that explains, among other notable things, how to “draw an egg through a ring,” “hocus pocus to turn white wine red,” and how to “cut off cock’s head with a feather.”