Author: VARIOUS.
Title: The Moral Miscellany: or, A Collection of Select Pieces, in Prose and Verse, For the Instruction and Entertainment of Youth. The Second Edition, Corrected and Enlarged.
Description: London: Printed for T. Becket and P.A. De Hondt, at Tully's Head, near Surrey Street, in the Strand, 1765. Full leather bound in orig. calf. Hinges worn, covers rubbed, several cracks to backstrip, a little loss to ends of spine, some rubbing to spine, 18th century ex-libris label to inside front cover (features a knight with a drawn side and a gryphon? within a border), ex-libris stamp to inside front cover, prev. owner's name (same as for ex-libris label) and date (1767) to front endpaper, a label appears to have been removed from the verso of the title-page, contents o/wise good. Includes essays on Rules for Conversation; The Study of Astronomy Recommended; Reflections Upon the Jews; The Natural History of Ants; On Bets, and the Custom of Pitting, as practised at White's etc. 376pp.

Keywords: 18th eighteenth century social sociology moral morality religion