Emblems for improvement and entertainment of youth 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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| Language: | English |
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London
printed for D. Steel, No. 1, Union-Row, Lower End of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill
1788, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T64640. - Price from imprint: Price Three Shillings. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The 62 copper plates are each faced with a letterpress page of explanation. - With an index |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource ([18],2-131,[10]p.,lxiiplates) 4° |