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.
Edition: The third edition.
Series: Blake -- no. 770; Blake box -- no. 16
Publisher: Printed by J. Crowder, for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard
Published: 1792
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Ethics -- Juvenile fiction.; Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Genres: Juvenile fiction.
Work titles: Moralisches Elementarbuch.
Notes: "Advertisement" signed by translator: Mary Wollstonecraft.

Vol. 1: [2], xxxii, 168 p., [16] leaves of plates; v. 2: [2], 190, [1] p., [17] leaves of plates; v. 3: [2], 200, [3] p., [18] leaves of plates.

Contains engraved frontispiece.

Includes publisher's advertisements: [3] p. at end of v. 3.

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.

Opie A 952/1; A 952/2; A 952/3

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

Bentley, G.E., Blake books, Suppl., pp. 248-251.

Gift to Victoria University Library (cop. 1;  v. 2, cop. 2 & loose plate). Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library has a disbound copy of plate 39 from volume III, trimmed to image with loss of inscription, plate-number, and imprint information. The disbound plate is held in Blake box no. 16.