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.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Juvenile literature--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Emblems--Early works to 1800.

Emblems.

Genre:

Juvenile literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([18],2-131,[10]p.,lxii plates )

Other Title:

Emblems for improvement and entertainment of youth

Place of Publication:

London : printed for D. Steel, No. 1, Union-Row, Lower End of the Minories, Little Tower-Hill, M.DCC.LXXXVII. [1787]

Notes:

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.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T64639.

OCLC:

642654694