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

All titles

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

People / Organizations

• Aesop (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed and sold by Joseph Crukshank, in Market-Street, between Second and Third-Streets, MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]

Added name

Bachet, Claude Gaspard, Sieur de Méziriac, 1581-1638. Shenstone, William, 1714-1763. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. Aesop. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. Shenstone, William, 1714-1763. Bachet, Claude-Gaspard, 1581-1638. Crukshank, Joseph, 1746?-1836, printer. Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.

Publication year

1786

ESTC No.

W6763

Grub Street ID

355809

Description

iv,[1],6-228[i.e., 6-226],[2]p., [1]leaf of plates : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

The morals are given in the indices, which are by William Shenstone.

Error in paging: p. 205 and 206 omitted from paging.

Frontispiece signed: Jas. Thackara.

"A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-35, translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A-T?