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Elements of morality, for the use of children : with an introductory address to parents, translated from the German of the Rev. C. G. Salzmann ; illustrated with fifty copper plates, in three volumes.

Accession number
PML 46010
Creator
Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
Published
London, Printed by J. Crowder, for J. Johnson, 1791.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, 1954.
Notes
Advertisement signed: Mary Wollstonecraft.
Second edition, but first edition with the Blake plates.
Vol. 1 is 3rd ed., 1792.
The number of plates engr. by William Blake after Chodowiecki varies, the most recent figure being 45; see Essick, p. 50.
Moralisches elementarbuch, was published in Leipzig in 1785. It was illustrated with seventy plates designed and engraved by Chodowiecki.
Lacks final leaf of vol. 3, the directions for inserting plates.
Description
3 v. : 51 engr. plates ; 17 cm
Provenance
Gift of Mrs. W. Murray Crane, with her bookplate in each volume.
Binding
Red straight-grain morocco, all edges gilt, by Brentanos.
Classification
Department