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 exigencies in common life : illustrated with proper and necessary explanations and observations from natural history, and the manners, customs, and opinions of the ancients.
| Format: | Microform Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Opie collection of children's literature ;
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| Item Description: | "Curiously engraved on sixty-two copper-plates." First issued as Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth. Publisher's advertisements on pages [17-18] at beginning and page [10] at end. Includes index on [9] pages at end. Reproduction of original in the Bodleian Library. Microform. |
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| Physical Description: | 18 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 63 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations |