Item Summary

Descriptive Information

Title
Choice emblems, natural, historical, fabulous, moral, and divine, for the improvement and pastime of youth : ornamented with near fifty handsome allegorical engravings, designed on purpose for this work : With pleasing and familiar descriptions to each, in prose and verse, serving to display the beauties and morals of the ancient fabulists : The whole calculated to convey the golden lessons of instruction under a new and more delightful dress / [by John Huddlestone Wynne].
Call Number
Hamilton 131s
Identifier
http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/0p096b49p
Publisher
Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, 1790.
Language
English
Date Created
1790
Extent
xii, 166 p. : ill. ; 13 cm.
Provenance
"William B. Leech, watchmaker and jeweler, 3610 Market St. Phila."--Rubber stamp, first fly-leaf verso.
Inscribed "A memorial of affection from Joseph Hutchins to his dear little pupil, Molley Delaney, 1791."--In ink, on second fly-leaf, recto.
References
Hamilton, S. Amer. book illustrators (1968 ed.), no. 131
Rights Statement
No Known Copyright
Binding Note
Full contemporary calf binding, with a gold line across spine.

Discovery Information

Subject
Emblems—Juvenile literature
Youth—Conduct of life

Physical Characteristics

File Count
191

Institutional Information

Collection
Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
IIIF Manifest URL

https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/f4859c96-4327-4671-b2cb-a396e54a2bfc/manifest