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 exigencies in common life; illustrated with proper and necessary explanations and observations from natural history and the manners, customs and opinions of the ancients
Series: Harvard College Library preservation digitization program
Publisher: Printed for William Davenhill
Published: 1769
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
Subjects: Emblems; Early works to 1800
Notes: Cover title.

"Curiously engraved on sixty-two copper-plates. Containing near one thousand different articles ; with a copious index, and alphabetical table of contents ; contrived not only for a study and improvement, by also as a play or diversion for youth."

Index on 9 unnumbered pages at end.

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