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Home > Hogarth moralized being a complete edition of Hogarth's works : containing near fourscore copper-plates, most elegantly engraved : with an explanation, pointing out the many beauties that may have hitherto escaped notice, and a comment on their moral tendency : calculated to improve the minds of youth, and, convey instruction, under the mask of entertainment : now first published, with the approbation of Jane Hogarth, widow of the late Mr. Hogarth.

Hogarth moralized being a complete edition of Hogarth's works : containing near fourscore copper-plates, most elegantly engraved : with an explanation, pointing out the many beauties that may have hitherto escaped notice, and a comment on their moral tendency : calculated to improve the minds of youth, and, convey instruction, under the mask of entertainment : now first published, with the approbation of Jane Hogarth, widow of the late Mr. Hogarth.

Accession number: 
PML 2869
Author: 
Hogarth, William, 1697-1764.
Published: 
London : Sold by S. Hooper, the East corner of the New Church, in the Strand; and, Mrs. Hogarth, at her house in Leicester-Fields, 1768.
Description: 
[4], viii, 212, v, [3] p., plates : ill., ports. ; 20 cm
Credit: 
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes: 

Dedication signed: John Trusler.
With an additional engraved t.p.: "The works of Mr. Hogarth moralized."
Engravings by Corbould and Dent, Lombard Street.
Includes index.
Price on engraved t.p. "Bound, One Pound Eighteen Shillings" on t.p.: "Thirteen Guineas bound."

Provenance: 
Bookplates of Sir Thomas Thornhill (armorial), Burnham Abbey, and Pierpont Morgan.
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