Emblems for youth, or, Improvement and entertainment : conveyed in a pleasing collection of emblematical, hieroglyphical, and aenigmatical devices relating to the various stations of life : tending to suppress immorality, vice, & prophaneness, by giving the most useful lessons and admonitions to all ages, degrees, and capacities.
| Format: | Microform Book |
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| Language: | English |
| Series: | Opie collection of children's literature ;
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| Item Description: | Date of publication suggested by the Bodleian Library. "The whole curiously engraved on 62 copper-plates." "Containing near one thousand different articles, with necessary explanations and observations, original as well as selected, from the most eminent authors, ancient and modern. To which is added, an alphabetical table of contents, contrived not only for a study and improvement, but also as a play or diversion for youth." Publisher's advertisements on 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: | 16 unnumbered pages, 131 pages, 10 unnumbered pages, 62 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations |