Emblems for the Improvement of Youth
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Title: Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: Containing Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, Relating to All Parts and Stations of Life...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Ware
Date Published: [c.1750]
Description:
Author:
Title: Emblems for the Entertainment and Improvement of Youth: Containing Hieroglyphical and Enigmatical Devices, Relating to All Parts and Stations of Life...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Richard Ware
Date Published: [c.1750]
Description:
Engraved title page, frontispiece, and 60 (of 62) engraved plates. Early amateur color applied to several illustrations. (8vo) 19x12.5 cm (7½x5") modern full calf.
Scarce assemblage of the allegorical uses of emblems. Early label of London bookseller Edward Withers affixed inside front cover. 1833 presentation inscription on front flyleaf.
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Some browning and foxing, lacking two plates (9 & 35); good in a fine modern binding.
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