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 Peter Stewart, in Second-Street, ninth door above Chesnut-Street, M,DCC,LXXXIX. [1789]

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. Stewart, Peter, d. 1826, printer.

Publication year

1789

ESTC No.

W6764

Grub Street ID

355810

Description

iv, [1], 6-215, [1] p. ; 18⁰

Note

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

"A new life of Esop."--p. [5]-24. Translated from the French of Claude Gaspard Bachet.

"An essay on fable. Introduction."--p. [25]-42.

Bookseller's advertisement, p. [216].

Uncontrolled note

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