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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 957-59
Creator
Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
Published
London : Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Advertisement signed: Mary Wollstonecraft.
Second edition, but first edition with the Blake plates.
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.
Plate 39 (vol. 3) lacking.
Final, unnumbered leaf in vol. 3 is a direction for the placement of the plates. Its verso contains and advertisement "Books for the use of young persons" with titles numbered 19-26.
Description
3 v. : 51 engr. pls. ; 18 cm
Provenance
From the Theodore Irwin collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Binding
Red straight-grain morocco, gilt, by Cecil & Larkins.
Classification
Department