Elements of morality, for the use of children
Subtitle: with an introductory address to parents : in three volumes
By: translated from the German of the Rev. C. G. Salzmann ; illustrated with fifty copper plates.
Contributors: Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.; Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Series: Blake -- no. 769; Blake box -- no. 16
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: Vol. 1: 1 l., xxxii, 168 p.; v. 2: 1 l., 190 p.; v. 3: 1 l., 198 p.

Translated by Mary Wollstonecraft.

Of the anonymous English engravings of 51 designs after Chodowiecki in this edition, 45 may cautiously be assigned to William Blake. Cf. G.E. Bentley, Jr. Blake books supplement.

First edition with the Blake plates.

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, 492A

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., pp. 247-251

Gift to Victoria University Library (v. 3 & loose plates). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy 1 of volume 3 title-page damaged with loss of text but repaired and text restored by hand.

Victoria University Library copy 2 of volume 3 is simply a number of the Blake plates disbound from vol. 3, some trimmed and or damaged: Plates 33-35, 38, 40-42, 44-50; Victoria University Library also has another disbound copy of Plate 49 of volume 3. The loose plates are held in Blake box no. 16.

Victoria University Library has also a disbound copy of a plate similar to plate 49 from the third volume.  The plate is from an unidentified edition of the same work by a different engraver (i.e. not William Blake).  The image is reversed and the dress of man and children are very different from the Blake plate.  The disbound plate is held in Blake box no. 16.