Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists. In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the antients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]

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Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists. In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the antients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
Aesop's fables. English
Aisopou mythoi
Select fables of Esop and other fabulists.

People / Organizations

Aesop (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Robert Bell, in Third-Street, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Added name

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. Aesop. Bell, Robert, 1732?-1784, printer. Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver.

Publication year

1777

ESTC No.

W6759

Grub Street ID

355804

Description

[2],xxviii,[1],30-162,[2],163-371,[1]p., 16leaves of plates : ill. ; 8⁰

Note

Errors in paging: p. 222, 223, 226, and 227 misnumbered 214, 215, 218, and 219.

Plates engraved by John Norman.

"Introduction. An essay on fable."--p. [vii]-xxviii.

"A new life of Aesop. Collected from ancient writers. By a learned friend."--p. [255]-294.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: [A]? B-3A?

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Select fables of Aesop and other fabulists. In three books. Containing, I. Fables from the antients. II. Fables from the moderns. III. Original fables newly invented. By Robert Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]