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Tales for youth : in thirty poems : to which are annexed, historical remarks and moral applications in prose / by the author of Choice emblems for the improvement of youth, &c. ; ornamented with cuts, neatly designed and engraved on wood, by Bewick.

Accession number
PML 81091
Creator
Wynne, John Huddlestone, 1743-1788.
Published
London : Printed by J. Crowder, for E. Newbery ... , 1794.
Notes
Pref. is signed: J.H.W.; J. H. Wynne is the author of Choice emblems (cf. Halkett & Laing).
"[Entered at Stationers Hall.]"
Page viii misnumbered x.
Frontispiece is dated Decemr. 17, 1793, and signed: [C]ook sculp. [Thomas Cook?].
Wood engraved illustrations are attributed to John Bewick.
Publisher's advertisement on p. [1]-[2] at end.
Description
x [i.e. viii], 158, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving, wood engravings) ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
PML copy: elaborate ms. inscription on front fly-leaf; bookplate on front pastedown; ms. notes tipped in before frontispiece.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf, rebacked.
Classification
Department