PROVERBS EXEMPLIFIED, AND ILLUSRATED BY PICTURES FROM REAL LIFE. Teaching Morality and a Knowledge of the World; With Prints. Designed as a Succession-Book to Aesop’s Fables. After the manner, and by the Author, of Hogarth Moralized. Rev. J. Trusler…At The Literary=Press… Price three shillings, half bound.
1790. viii, 196 pages. Illustrated with woodcut vignette to title and forty-nine other cuts throughout by John Bewick. Later half-bound morocco; red leather title-piece to spine; marbled boards. 12mo. Top edge gilt. 155 x 97 mm. First edition. Some slight browning; two bookplates to front pastedown; else an excellent copy with fine Bewick cuts.
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