Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. In three books. By R. Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]

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• Select fables of Esop and other fabulists. In three books. By R. Dodsley. [Seven lines from Milton's Paradise lost]
• Select fables of Esop and other fabulists.

People / Organizations

• Aesop (Author)

Imprint

Philadelphia: Printed by Joseph James, Chesnut-Street, [1790?]

Added name

Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. Aesop. Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. James, Joseph, 1754 or 5-1830, printer. Vallance, J. (John), 1770-1823, engraver. Thackara, James, 1767-1848, engraver.

Publication year

1790

ESTC No.

W6765

Grub Street ID

355811

Description

lx [i.e., lviii],218+, [24]p. : ill. ; 12⁰

Note

Probably printed in 1790. Joseph James printed alone at the Chesnut-Street address from 1787 to 1790. In 1790, he became a partner of Benjamin Johnson, who issued an edition of the Fables with these illustrations. John Vallance is listed in the 1791 Philadelphia directory and was probably active in Philadelphia in 1790, before returning to England in 1793.

Error in paging: page numbers xlix and l omitted in pagination.

Relief cuts signed: V, JV [i.e., John Vallance] and T, IT [i.e., James Trenchard].

"A new life of Esop. Collected from ancient writings, by a learned friend."--p. vii-xliii.

Uncontrolled note

Signatures: A-U? W? X-Y? 2A-2B?