The moral mirror: or, a Looking-Glass for sots, parasites, gluttons, clowns, praters, time-servers, pretenders, knaves, knights of the post, atheists, zealots, hypocrites, &c. &c. &c.

ID 21162
Title The moral mirror: or, a Looking-Glass for sots, parasites, gluttons, clowns, praters, time-servers, pretenders, knaves, knights of the post, atheists, zealots, hypocrites, &c. &c. &c.
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Signed Author [Anonymous]
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Volumes 1
Pagination viii, 10-143
Date of Publication 1813
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Edition Number 1
Date of First Publication 1813
Imprint Printed by Jane Aitken, for M. Carey, 122 Market Street.
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Copyright Statement District of Pennsylvania, to wit: Be it remembered, That on the sixth day of May, in the thirty-eighth year of the Independence of the United States of America. A. D. 1813, Mathew Carey, of the said District, hath deposited in this Office, the Title of a Book, the Right whereof he claims as proprietor, in the Words following, to wit: "The Moral Mirror: or a Looking-Glass for Sots, Parasites, Gluttons, Clowns, Praters, Time-Servers, Pretenders, Knaves, Knights of the Post, Atheists, Hypocrites, &c. &c &c. Quid rides? mutato nomine de te Fabula narratur" In Conformity to the Act of the Congress of the United States, intituled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the Act, entitled "An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, "An Act for the Encouragement of Learning by securing the Copies of Maps, Charts, and Books, to the Authors and Proprietors of such Copies during the Time therein mentioned." and extending the Benefits thereof to the Arts of designing, engraving, and etching historical and other Prints." D. Caldwell, Clerk of the District of Pennsylvania.
Location of Printing Philadelphia US
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Notes AAS Notes: Selections from Characters by Samuel Butler and Microcosmography by John Earle.
Copyright May, 6, 1813, by Mathew Carey.
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Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
Shaw, R.R. American bibliography,
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Butler, Samuel, Earle, John. The moral mirror: or, a Looking-Glass for sots, parasites, gluttons, clowns, praters, time-servers, pretenders, knaves, knights of the post, atheists, zealots, hypocrites, &c. &c. &c.The Women's Print History Project, 2019, title ID 21162, https://womensprinthistoryproject.com/title/21162. Accessed 2025-10-29. 

@book{ wphp_21162
  author={Butler,Samuel and Earle,John},
  year={1813},
  title={The moral mirror: or, a Looking-Glass for sots, parasites, gluttons, clowns, praters, time-servers, pretenders, knaves, knights of the post, atheists, zealots, hypocrites, &c. &c. &c.},
  publisher={Mathew Carey [122 Market Street]},
  address={Philadelphia},    }

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