Emblems for the 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

Standardized Title:

Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emblems.

Genre:

Booksellers' advertisements -- England -- 18th century.

Penn Provenance:

Quille, N. (autograph)

Van Kirk, S. Frances (donor)

Physical Description:

18 unnumbered pages, 2-131 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 63 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (engravings) ; 15 cm (4to)

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for D. Steel ..., 1787.

Notes:

First published ca. 1750 under the title: Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth.

Illustrations include a frontispiece and plates numbered I-LXII, each faced with a letterpress explanation.

Text paginated with even numbers on the rectos.

Includes indexes.

Advertisements: p. [10] at end.

OCLC:

32175751