The Inside Story of the Elizabeth Nesbitt Room
The Circle of the Sciences

24) This six-volume set, The Circle of the Sciences, was published in London, 1769, by John Newbery, a London bookseller whose shop, the Bible and Sun, was in St. Paul's Churchyard. Because he had the revolutionary idea of publishing and selling books for the amusement of children, our modern-day Newbery Award bears his name. The Circle of the Sciences comprises grammar, arithmetic, rhetoric, poetry, logic and geography, all made "familiar and easy to young gentlemen and ladies." An expert Pittsburgh bookbinder reproduced the original bindings for us...at great expense, I may add.