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Additional authors

1. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797
2. Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801
3. Blake, William, 1757-1827
4. Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809
5. Crowder, J. (John), -1830
6. Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944
7. Children's Room Collection

Description

1. 3 v. : ill.; 17 cm.

Subject

1. Juvenile literature > England > London > 1792
2. Conduct of life > Juvenile fiction > Early works to 1800

Genre/Form

1. Juvenile literature – England – London – 1792.

Call number

1. NAS (Salzmann, C. G. Elements of morality for the use of children. 1792)

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Note

1. Pagination: v. 1: [4], xxxii, 168 p., [16] leaves of plates ; v. 2: [4], 190, [2] p., [17] leaves of plates ; v. 3: [4], 200, [4] p., [18] leaves of plates.
2. Signatures: v. 1: a¹² b⁶ B-H¹² ; v. 2: [A]² B-I¹² ; v. 3: [A]¹² B-I¹² K⁶.
3. With half-titles.
4. Translated to English, with additions and alterations, by Mary Wollstonecraft.
5. Publisher's advertisements: v. 3, p. [202].
6. "Directions for placing the plates": v. 1: p. xxxii ; v. 2: p. [191] ; v. 3: p. [201].
7. Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece and fifty numbered engraved plates. The plates are identical to those in the first edition, of which about sixteen were engraved by William Blake after Daniel Chodowiecki (cf. G. Keyne's Bibliography of William Blake, p. 236).

Access (note)

1. Restricted access;

Provenance (note)

1. Copy in *KH, inscribed: in ink, on the title page of volumes 1 to 3, "Anne Elizth. Cholmley Phipps, Langton 1797- given her by her Aunt Mrs. Strickland." And on the free end-leaf of vol. 1, "Edward Johnston 7. July 1902, at 16. Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn;" and on vols. 2-3, "E.J.7.vii.1902."

Binding (note)

1. Copy in *KH bound in brown leather, blind tooled spine.

Author

1. Salzmann, Christian Gotthilf, 1744-1811.

Title

1. Elements of morality, for the use of children : with an introductory address to parents / translated from the German of C. G. Salzmann ; illustrated with fifty copper plates ; in three volumes.

Imprint

1. London : Printed by J. Crowder for J. Johnson in St. Paul's Church-Yard, 1792.

Edition

1. The third edition.

Restricted access

1. Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local note

1. Pforzheimer copy: Lacking the half-titles and plate no. 41. -- With the ink ownership signatures of "J.A. Herries" on the front free endpapers of each volume. -- Bound in later dark blue morocco grain cloth; volumes numbered in gilt on spines.

Provenance

1. Copy in *KH, inscribed: in ink, on the title page of volumes 1 to 3, "Anne Elizth. Cholmley Phipps, Langton 1797- given her by her Aunt Mrs. Strickland." And on the free end-leaf of vol. 1, "Edward Johnston 7. July 1902, at 16. Old Buildings, Lincoln's Inn;" and on vols. 2-3, "E.J.7.vii.1902." NN

Binding

1. Copy in *KH bound in brown leather, blind tooled spine. NN

Connect to:

1. Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection
2. Full text available via HathiTrust--v. 1
3. Full text available via HathiTrust--v. 2
4. Full text available via HathiTrust--v. 3

Added author

1. Wollstonecraft, Mary, 1759-1797. Translator
2. Chodowiecki, Daniel, 1726-1801. Illustrator
3. Blake, William, 1757-1827. Engraver
4. Johnson, Joseph, 1738-1809. Publisher
5. Crowder, J. (John), -1830. Printer
6. Johnston, Edward, 1872-1944, former owner.
7. Children's Room Collection.

Research call number

1. NAS (Salzmann, C. G. Elements of morality for the use of children. 1792)
2. Pforz (Wollstonecraft, M. Elements of morality. 1792)
3. *KH 1792 Salzmann 16-860