Elements of morality
Subtitle: for the use of children : with an introductory address to parents
By: translated from the German of C.G. Salzmann ; illustrated with fifty copper plates ; in three volumes
Contributors: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797; Blake, William, 1757-1827
Publisher: Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson
Published: 1791
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Ethics; Conduct of life
Work titles: Moralisches elementarbuch.
Notes: Translated by Mary Wollstonecraft; illustrated by William Blake

"The German original ... Moralisches elementarbuch, was published in Leipzig in 1785. It was illustrated with seventy plates; designed and engraved by Chodowiecki. Forty-nine of these were redrawn by Blake for the translation, one, numbered 20 ... being, however, somewhat altered from the original. He added two more of his own designing ... plate 27 ... plate 28." cf. Grolier Club, Catalogue of books by William Blake

First edition with the Blake plates

Final leaf of v. 2 is cancel: offset of the original visible on terminal blank

Publisher's catalog at end of v. 3

ESTC T134900

King Collection copy lacking all preliminary matter