Proverbs exemplified, and illustrated by pictures from real life. . Teaching morality and a knowledge of the world; with prints. Designed as a succession-book to Æsop's fables. After the manner, and by the author, of Hogarth moralized.
John Trusler, (1735-1820)
Category
Books
Date
1790
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Cherryburn, Northumberland
NT 3042985
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii,196p . ill.. . 12mo.. Price in pencil on pastedown: 3/6. With a typed card (by Roscoe, according to Schiller's catalogue) containing notes on the author. Earlier owner's shelf-mark on end pastedown: C.1.31.. Provenance: Bookplate: The Bewick Collection of S. Roscoe. Armorial bookplate - George Folliott.. Binding: Quarter black morocco, marbled paper-covered boards. Ticket on pastedown: Bound by Bettison Cheltenham & Leamington.
Makers and roles
John Trusler, (1735-1820) John Bewick (Northumberland 1760 - Northumberland 1795)