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.

Accession number

PML 86915

Creator

Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.

Published

Philadelphia : Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank ..., 1790.

Credit line

Gift; Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1991.

Notes

Attributed to John Huddlestone Wynne in the Dictionary of national biography.
Dedicated to Lady Elizabeth Kerr.
Signatures: pi⁶ A-D¹⁸ E¹² (E12 blank; missing).
The ill. are woodcuts.
Probably a prize binding.

Description

xii, 166, [2] p. : ill ; 13 cm.

Provenance

Susannah Spencer (label on upper cover); from the library of Miss Julia P. Wightman.

Binding

Contemporary calf binding. American? Possible by Aitken? With red label on front cover: "Susannah Spencer." Gilt tooling.

Classification

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