Hogarth moralized. :. Being a complete edition of Hogarth's works. Containing near fourscore copper-plates, most elegantly engraved. With an explanation, pointing out the many beauties that may have hitherto escaped notice; and a comment on their moral tendency. Calculated to improve the Minds of Youth, and, convey Instruction, under the Mask of Entertainment. Now First Published, With the Approbation of Jane Hogarth, Widow of the late Mr. Hogarth.
John Trusler (1735-1820)
Category
Books
Date
1768
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3259852
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], viii, 212, v, [3] p., [2] leaves of plates:. ill.,port. ;. 8vo. Inserted at back: 21 x 13 cm page cut from 'The Biographical Magazine' (Anon., 1794) with printed short biography of William Hogarth surmounted by an indented portrait; 18 x 10 cm piece of off-white paper (likely late eighteenth-century) with two indented engravings of Hogarth's 1736 'Before' and After'. Provenance: adhered to front flyleaf, book label: 'Wyndham Ketton-Cremer from his Banningham friends, September 22nd, 1962' [Robert Wyndham Ketton-Cremer, 1906-1969], with additional larger copy inserted at back; in pencil on front flyleaf: 'J[illegible] Hanleydale / S. B. O.[?]'. Binding: eighteenth-century red velvet over tapered wooden boards (heavily faded). Four double raised bands, gilt-ruled. Pastedowns and endpapers lined in silver silk with gilt-stamped decorative borders. Red bookmark ribbon with gilt Greek key pattern, tassel end detached and inserted between back flyleaf and pastedown. Tied and cased.
Makers and roles
John Trusler (1735-1820)