POCKET LIBRARY OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE.
— from The Humors of Falconbridge A Collection of Humorous and Every Day Scenes by Falconbridge

Cloth, 1 25 Pocket Library of Useful Knowledge, 50 Lady's Work Table Book, 50 Gentlemen's Etiquette, 25 Ladies' Etiquette, 25 Kitchen Gardener, 25 Complete Florist, 25 Knowlson's Horse Doctor, 25 Knowlson's Cow Doctor, 25 Arthur's Receipts for Putting up Fruits and Vegetables in Summer to Keep, 12 EMERSON BENNETT'S.
— from Mrs. Hale's Receipts for the Million Containing Four Thousand Five Hundred and Forty-five Receipts, Facts, Directions, etc. in the Useful, Ornamental, and Domestic Arts by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale

The following are the opinions of the Reviewers on its merits:— “As a book of daily reference, the Family Cyclopædia is really invaluable: it forms a portable Library of Useful Knowledge, of easy reference, and contains a great variety of information not to be found in other works of similar pretensions, and of greater magnitude.”
— from Deadly Adulteration and Slow Poisoning Unmasked Disease and Death in the Pot and Bottle by Anonymous