Emblems for improvement and entertainment of youth [electronic resource] : containing Emblematical, Hieroglyphical, and Aenigmatical, Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; intending to promote Morality, Virtue, and Religion; and suppress Immorality, Vice, and Prophaneness; by giving useful Lessons and Admonitions to all Ages, Degrees, and Capacities, suitable to most Exigences in common Life. Illustrated With proper and necessary Explanations and Observations from Natural History, and the Manners, Customs, and Opinions, of the Ancients. Curiously engraved on Sixty-Two Copper-Plates. Containing near One Thousand different Articles; with a copious Index and Alphabetical Table of Contents; contrived not only for a Study and Improvement, but also as a Play or Diversion for youth.
1787
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Emblems for improvement and entertainment of youth [electronic resource] : containing Emblematical, Hieroglyphical, and Aenigmatical, Devices, relating to all Parts and Stations of Life; intending to promote Morality, Virtue, and Religion; and suppress Immorality, Vice, and Prophaneness; by giving useful Lessons and Admonitions to all Ages, Degrees, and Capacities, suitable to most Exigences in common Life. Illustrated With proper and necessary Explanations and Observations from Natural History, and the Manners, Customs, and Opinions, of the Ancients. Curiously engraved on Sixty-Two Copper-Plates. Containing near One Thousand different Articles; with a copious Index and Alphabetical Table of Contents; contrived not only for a Study and Improvement, but also as a Play or Diversion for youth.
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London : printed for D. Steel, No. 1, Union-Row, Lower End of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]
Place of Publication or Printing
Great Britain -- England -- London.
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English
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[18],2-131,[10]p.,lxii plates ; 4⁰.
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The 62 copper plates are each faced with a letterpress page explanation.
With an index.
Price from imprint: Price Three Shillings.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
With an index.
Price from imprint: Price Three Shillings.
Reproduction of original from British Library.
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English Short Title Catalog, T64639.
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Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
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