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Elements of morality : for the use of children with an introductory address to parents ... illustrated with fifty copper plates...

Title
Elements of morality : for the use of children with an introductory address to parents ... illustrated with fifty copper plates...
Author
Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
Publication
London : Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791.

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  • Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797.
  • Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801.
  • Blake, William, 1757-1827.
Description
3 v. (v. 1: 1 l., xxxii, 168 p.; v. 2: 1 l., 190 p.; v. 3: 1 l., 198 p.) engr. pls.; 16 cm.
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Note
  • Translated by Mary Wollstonecraft; illustrated with 50 copper plates by William Blake.
  • "The German original ... Moralisches elementarbuch, was published in Leipzig in 1785. It was illustrated with seventy plates; designed and engraved by Chodowiecki. Forty-nine of these were redrawn by Blake for the translation, one, numbered 20 ... being, however, somewhat altered from the original. He added two more of his own designing ... plate 27 ... plate 28." cf. Grolier Club, Catalogue of books by William Blake.
  • First edition with the Blake plates.
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  • Restricted access;
Indexed In (note)
  • Keynes
Call Number
Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Elements of morality)
OCLC
12112737
Author
Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.
Title
Elements of morality : for the use of children with an introductory address to parents ... illustrated with fifty copper plates...
Imprint
London : Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson, 1791.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Indexed In:
Keynes, 104.
Local Note
Pforzheimer copy: Without the frontispiece. -- Advertisement is signed by Mary Wollstonecraft, who translated the work while making it an English story. -- Contemporary half calf, French shell marbled boards, gilt decorated on spines, red morocco labels, speckled edges. -- Harry Browne's bookplate. Signed in ink, "Eliza Bell".
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Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Translator
Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801. art.
Blake, William, 1757-1827. egr.
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Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Elements of morality)
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