The polite moralist; or A little, pretty pocket companion, for pretty, little masters and misses; consisting of a great variety of proverbs, precepts, letters, stories, (real and fabulous) riddles, epigrams, epitaphs, and other little puerile amusements, in prose and verse. Adorn'd with sculptures. Observe these moral fancies & you'll find, by practice then will soon improve your mind

People / Organizations

• Stanley Crowder ("printed for")

Imprint

London : printed for Stanley Crowder at ye. Looking Glass, opposite St. Magnus Church, London-Bridge, [1758]

Added name

Crowder, Stanley, -1798, bookseller.

Publication year

1758

ESTC No.

T198544

Grub Street ID

231169

Description

[2], 92, [4] p., [1] plate : ill. ; 32°.

Note

The titlepage is engraved. Woodcut vignettes. Factotum initials and headpieces and tailpieces composed by printer's flowers

The frontispiece is dated: 1758

The final leaf bears an advertisement for J. Jefferies

Signatures: pi]2(-pi1) A-F]8.