The World turned up-side down, or, The comical metamorphoses : a work entirely calculated to excite laughter, in grown persons, and promote morality, in the young ones, of both sexes; decorated with 34 copper plates curiously drawn and elegantly engraved.
Accession number:
PML 84610
Published:
London : Printed for & sold by Ryland, at No: 67, in the Old-Bailey, [ca. 1770?].
Description:
ii, [3]-64 p., [34] leaves of plates : ill. (etchings) ; 13 cm
Credit:
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1982.
Notes:
"Price. 1s. plain, 2s. colour'd."
Dated from publication information.
Engraved t.p. included in plates.
Illustrations (excluding frontispiece and that opposite the introduction) are numbered I-XXXI.
PML copy: Plate X wanting. Supplied from another copy (?), printed in red.
Binding:
Dutch floral boards; in a slipcase.
Variant Title:
Comical metamorphoses
Provenance:
Edgar S. Oppenheimer.
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