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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- M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
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Publication/Creation
London : printed for D. Steel, No. 1, Union-Row, Lower End of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXXXVIII. [1788]
Physical description
[18],2-131,[10]p.,lxiiplates ; 40.
References note
ESTC T64640
Reproduction note
Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Thomson Gale, 2003. (Eighteenth century collections online). Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.