Æsop explained, and rendred both in English and Latine verse, being at first paraphrased, or turned out of the Latine prose into Latine verse; and afterward Englished. Containing his most choice, witty and facetious fables, together with their full meaning and morals, accomodated to the lives and manners of men in this present age. With hexameters and pentameters transposed or reversed for the benefit of that commendable art of poetry. To which is added a necessary appendix containing a collection of English proverbs and sayings. with their true meaning and significations fully unfolded and explained. Together with the plain meaning of the grammar rules unfolded to the youths capacity by way of question and answer

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  • Æsop explained, and rendred both in English and Latine verse, being at first paraphrased, or turned out of the Latine prose into Latine verse; and afterward Englished. Containing his most choice, witty and facetious fables, together with their full meaning and morals, accomodated to the lives and manners of men in this present age. With hexameters and pentameters transposed or reversed for the benefit of that commendable art of poetry. To which is added a necessary appendix containing a collection of English proverbs and sayings. with their true meaning and significations fully unfolded and explained. Together with the plain meaning of the grammar rules unfolded to the youths capacity by way of question and answer
  • Aesop explained, and rendered both in English and Latin verse; Æsopi fabulæ explicatæ, et carminibus Anglo-Latinis redditæ imprimis illustratæ; Aesopi fabulae explicatae, et carminibus Anglo-Latinis redditae imprimis illustratae
People / Organizations
Imprint
London: printed for Thomas Parkhurst, at the sign of the Bible and Three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, near Mercers Chappel, 1682.
Added name
N. R.
Publication year
1682
ESTC No.
R24681
Grub Street ID
108445
Description
139, [5] p. ; 8°.
Note
Preface signed: N.R

With an additional Latin titlepage on A1v: Æsopi fabulæ explicatæ, et carminibus Anglo-Latinis redditæ imprimis illustratæ, sive translatæ è prosa Latina in linguam vernaculam. In quibus continentur fabellæ selectissimæ, & facetiæ jucundissimæ, moribus, & vitæ hominum hujus præsentis sæculi accommodatæ. Simul hexametris, & pentametris in usum artis poeticæ transversis & dislocatis: quibus adjungitur appendix necessaria continens brevem collectionem proverbiorum Anglicanorum & sententiarum, una cum sensu vero & significatione illorum. Addita significatione dilucida regularum syntaxeos explicata quæstionibus & responsis. Londini, vnales prostant apud Tho. Parkhurst ad insigne Biblia & tres Coronarum in vico vulgo Cheapside dicto. 1682

With English and Latin texts on facing pages

With [5] final advertisement pages (I6v-I8v): Books to be sold by Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside

Signatures: A-I]8.
Uncontrolled note
Catalogued from original at the British Library