Emblems for the improvement and entertainment of youth
Subtitle: containing emblematical, hieroglyphical, and aenigmatical, devices, relating to all parts and stations of life : intending to promote morality, virtue and religion, and suppress immorality, vice, and prophaneness : by giving useful lessons and admonitions to all ages, degrees, and capacities, suitable to most exigences in common life ; illustrated with proper and necessary explanations and observations from natural history, and the manners, customs, and opinions of the ancients
Publisher: Printed for R. Ware
Published: 1755
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Emblems -- Juvenile literature; Moral education
Notes: "Curiously engraved on sixty-two copper-plates."

First issued as Emblems for the entertainment and improvement of youth

Pagination begins with first recto of text as p. 2

Signatures: Ap2sap2sb1cp3sd1B-2Np2s (horizontal chain lines; leaf size 14.2 x 11 cm. ; sewn in 16s)

Includes index

ESTC N007357