Juvenile Philosophy: containing Amusing and Instructive Discourses on Hogarth s Prints of the Industrious and Idle Apprentices. . . . Designed to Enlarge the Understandings of Youth.

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Published by London: Printed by Ruffy & Evans, Leadenhall Street, for Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, 1801.

[iv], 188pp., 18mo. Engraved frontsipiece by Springsguth after Corbould (this mildly stained), corner off pp. 1-2 just touching a page number, another small corner flaw at pp. 133-134 is neatly repaired without loss of paper or text. Original roan-backed marbled boards, unlettered (a paper label likely long since fallen off); extremities worn, but sound. First edition, with the first and by far the longest of the discourses telling the story of Mrs. Wilson and her two sons, once of them exemplary, the other without "the least propensity to improve his mind." One day Mrs. Wilson decides to present her sons with "a treat. . . of a new kind: - a set of prints, the Industrious and Idle Apprentices, by Hogarth." All twelve plates are then described in detail, as the idle son becomes more and more contemplative. The happy result is not hard to guess. Osborne Collection, p. 716. Seller Inventory # 11927

Bibliographic Details

Title: Juvenile Philosophy: containing Amusing and ...
Publisher: London: Printed by Ruffy & Evans, Leadenhall Street, for Vernor and Hood, in the Poultry, 1801.
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition.