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The Beauties of history, or, Pictures of virtue and vice : drawn from examples of men, eminent for their virtues or infamous for their vices / selected for the instruction and entertainment of youth by the late W. Dodd, LL.D.

Accession number
PML 81761
Published
London : Printed for Vernor and Hood, Birchin-Lane, Cornhill, E. Newbery ... , and Darton and Harvey, Grace-Church-Street, 1796.
Notes
Preface is dated March 1796 and signed: Stephen Jones; Jones is responsible for the "additions and improvements".
"The greater part of this work was selected by the late Dr. Dodd, to illustrate and exemplify his sermons to young men ..." -- pref.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [1]-[6] at end.
Frontispiece is dated January 9, 1795 and signed: Stothard del.; P. Thomson sculpt.
Wood engraved vignettes are attributed to John Bewick.
Watermark: 1794.
Description
xviii, 300, [6] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. (engraving, wood engravings) ; 18 cm
Binding
Brown calf, gilt, with red lettering-piece.
Classification
Department