A new translation of Æsop's Fables, adorn'd with cutts; suited to the fables copied from the Frankfurt edition: by the Most Ingenious Artist Christopher van Sycham. The whole being rendered in a Plain Easy, and Familiar Style, adapted to the Meanest Capacities. Nevertheless Corrected and Reform'd from the Grossness of the Language, and Poorness of the Verse us'd in the now Vulgar Translation: The Morals also more accurately Improv'd; Together with Reflections on each Fable, in Verse. Second edition with additions. By J. J. Gent
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London
printed for Tho. Tebb. at the Flower de Luce in Little Britain; and Tho. King, in Petty France, Booksellers
1715, 1715
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| Collection: | Eighteenth Century Collections Online / ECCO - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Item Description: | English Short Title Catalog, T84997. - Includes: 'The life of Æsop'. - J. J. Gent = John Jackson. - Reproduction of original from British Library. - The woodcuts are copied from the Frankfurt edition of 1654. - With five final leaves of contents and index |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource (lxx,256,[10]p) ill 12° |